Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.8985S, 121.6243WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.448 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 121.6243 East, latitude 23.8985 North, depth = 12.448 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 23:53:34 / April 24, 2024 @ 11:53 pm. Event id: us6000mtkp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mtkp. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:53:34 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

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

Did you feel it?

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 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: 8 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6243° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8985° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.448 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 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 2024-04-24 23:53:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-25 00:06:45 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us6000mtkp Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtkp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtkp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply