A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Id of earthquake: us6000mwy8. Event ids that are associated: us6000mwy8. Exact location of event, longitude 121.5613 East, latitude 23.708 North, depth = 20.141 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:48:42 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/24 / 2024-05-07 12:48:42 / May 7, 2024 @ 12:48 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.141 km (13 miles).
The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Lugu, Puli (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, 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 struck near.
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