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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 22, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7856S, 121.4477WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.751 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mt2a. Id of event: us6000mt2a. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.4477 East, latitude 23.7856 North, depth = 14.751 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 22:26:20 / April 22, 2024 @ 10:26 pm UTC/GMT. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:26:20 / 10:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

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-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km SW of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.751 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SW 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 22:26:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-24 21:49:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 247 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.415 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us6000mt2a Id of event.
Event Code 6000mt2a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mt2a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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