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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.8531S, 121.6688WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location of earthquake, 121.6688° East, 23.8531° North, depth 15.046 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:15:33 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.046 km (9 miles). Unique identifier: us6000mv8c. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mv8c. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 00:15:33 / April 23, 2024 @ 12:15 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu.

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 one hundred and twenty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6688° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8531° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.046 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 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 2024-04-23 00:15:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-21 23:35:58 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 354 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 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.571 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us6000mv8c Id of event.
Event Code 6000mv8c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mv8c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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