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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 38 km SE of Puli, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7505S, 121.2624WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Puli in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 09:35:30 / April 30, 2024 @ 9:35 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 121.2624 East, latitude 23.7505 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:35:30 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000mv5m. Event ids that are associated: us6000mv5m.

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Douliu, Nantou. Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-two, 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 have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 38 km SE of Puli, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.2624° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38 km SE of Puli, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-30 09:35:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-07 07:37:01 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 259 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mv5m Id of event.
Event Code 6000mv5m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mv5m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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