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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 30, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.9629S, 121.788WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000mnvw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mnvw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/05/24 / 2024-05-29 23:54:44 / May 29, 2024 @ 11:54 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:54:44 / 11:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.235 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 121.788° East, 23.9629° North, depth 22.235 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Puli, Hualian.

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 ten, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.788° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9629° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.235 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km E 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 2024-05-29 23:54:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-30 00:07:43 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us7000mnvw Id of event.
Event Code 7000mnvw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mnvw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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