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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 16.463 km, 121.5452° East, 24.0614° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.463 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:10:58 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/05/24 / 2024-05-31 17:10:58 / May 31, 2024 @ 5:10 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000mpaw. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mpaw.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Banqiao, Hsinchu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 11 km NNW of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.5452° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.0614° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.463 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km NNW 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	2024-05-31 17:10:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-31 17:32:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	417	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	125	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.606	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000mpaw	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mpaw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mpaw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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