A 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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