Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000muyq. Unique identifier: us6000muyq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.673 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:38:44 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 23:38:44 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:38 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6289 East, latitude 23.8423 North, depth = 12.673 km.

Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lugu, Puli, Hualian.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 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 was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6289° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8423° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.673 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km S 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 23:38:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-21 05:11:30	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	298	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.541	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us6000muyq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000muyq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000muyq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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