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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7966S, 121.6724WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.867 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 19:00:15 / April 22, 2024 @ 7:00 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:00:15 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6724 East, latitude 23.7966 North, depth = 11.867 km. Event id: us6000muy5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000muy5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Hualian. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-five, 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 21 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6724° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.867 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km SSE 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 2024-04-22 19:00:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-03 15:11:56 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.529 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000muy5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000muy5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000muy5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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