Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 16:45:24 / April 22, 2024 @ 4:45 pm. The temblor was reported at 16:45:24 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mszu. Id of event: us6000mszu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6489° East, 23.7696° North, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Hualian. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 23 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6489° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.7696° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23 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 16:45:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-01 19:27:37	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	246	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	0.495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000mszu	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mszu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mszu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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