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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 12 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.9172S, 121.705WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The temblor was picked up at 15:52:17 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/05/24 / 2024-05-30 15:52:17 / May 30, 2024 @ 3:52 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 121.705° East, 23.9172° North, depth 37.87 km. Id of earthquake: us7000mp02. Event ids that are associated: us7000mp02. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.87 km (24 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 12 km (8 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Puli, Hualian.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.705° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km ESE 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 2024-05-30 15:52:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-30 16:30:58 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 312 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 51 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.642 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us7000mp02 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mp02 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mp02, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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