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

A 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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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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