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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1471S, 121.7705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The temblor was picked up at 02:55:20 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n0r7. Unique identifier: us6000n0r7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/05/24 / 2024-05-19 02:55:20 / May 19, 2024 @ 2:55 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.835 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 26.835 km, 121.7705° East, 24.1471° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Yilan, 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 ten, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7705° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1471° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.835 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km NE 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 2024-05-19 02:55:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-24 23:01:28 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 284 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.632 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000n0r7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0r7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0r7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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