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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 27 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1994S, 121.7162WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The temblor was reported at 17:07:12 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.7162 East, latitude 24.1994 North, depth = 33.329 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/05/24 / 2024-05-24 17:07:12 / May 24, 2024 @ 5:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.329 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us6000n0ss. Id of event: us6000n0ss.

The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). 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 Taoyuan City, Taipei, Banqiao.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 27 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7162° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1994° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.329 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km NNE 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 2024-05-24 17:07:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-24 17:52:51 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 326 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 108 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us6000n0ss Id of event.
Event Code 6000n0ss An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n0ss, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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