A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/24 / 2024-04-25 09:03:31 / April 25, 2024 @ 9:03 am. 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: us6000mw0l. Id of event: us6000mw0l. Exact location of earthquake, 121.7748° East, 23.8904° North, depth 27.492 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:03:31 / 9:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.492 km (17 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Hualian.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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