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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.2253S, 121.9344WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000myzq. Unique identifier: us6000myzq. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 07:49:28 / May 10, 2024 @ 7:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.628 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 121.9344 East, latitude 24.2253 North, depth = 5.628 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:49:28 / 7:49 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taipei, Banqiao, Daxi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 43 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9344° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.628 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 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 2024-05-10 07:49:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-24 11:37:55 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 354 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.674 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 us6000myzq Id of event.
Event Code 6000myzq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000myzq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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