Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mv82. Unique identifier: us6000mv82. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5571 East, latitude 23.8754 North, depth = 15.411 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 00:10:09 / April 23, 2024 @ 12:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.411 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:10:09 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.5571° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8754° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.411 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SSW 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 00:10:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-21 23:14:56	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	340	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.537	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us6000mv82	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mv82	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mv82,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

121.5571° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

23.8754° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

15.411 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

12 km SSW 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 00:10:09

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2024-05-21 23:14:56

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

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

340

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.

Horizontal Distance

0.537

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.62 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us6000mv82

Id of event.

Event Code

6000mv82

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us6000mv82,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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