A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.123 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.2905 East, latitude 23.9458 North, depth = 19.123 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 19:19:33 / April 24, 2024 @ 7:19 pm. The temblor was detected at 19:19:33 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000mvtf. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mvtf.
Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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