A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/05/24 / 2024-05-11 19:07:33 / May 11, 2024 @ 7:07 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000mxyu. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mxyu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.509 km (24 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:07:33 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 38.509 km, 121.6914° East, 24.2266° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taipei, Banqiao, Daxi (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty, 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 29 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan.
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