A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.676 East, latitude 23.7697 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 01:28:36 / 1:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mr0b. Id of event: us7000mr0b. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/06/24 / 2024-06-02 01:28:36 / June 2, 2024 @ 1:28 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Puli, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).
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 fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 24 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan.
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