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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 57 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.3227S, 122.0578WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Friday. 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: 24/05/24 / 2024-05-24 03:10:04 / May 24, 2024 @ 3:10 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:10:04 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.584 km (10 miles). Exact location of event, depth 15.584 km, 122.0578° East, 24.3227° North. Event id: us6000n0mf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n0mf.

The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian, Yilan.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 57 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.0578° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.3227° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.584 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-24 03:10:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-24 04:10:18 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 271 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000n0mf Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0mf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0mf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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