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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 37 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan

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Earthquake location 24.176S, 121.8987WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.748 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000myaz. Id of event: us6000myaz. Exact location of earthquake, 121.8987° East, 24.176° North, depth 12.748 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 18:10:40 / 6:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/05/24 / 2024-05-06 18:10:40 / May 6, 2024 @ 6:10 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8987° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.748 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-06 18:10:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-17 16:11:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000myaz Id of event.
Event Code 6000myaz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000myaz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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