Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 34 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 28.596 km, 121.8858° East, 24.4678° North. Event id: us7000mq2s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mq2s. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/24 / 2024-05-27 21:48:49 / May 27, 2024 @ 9:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:48:49 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.596 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Keelung (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 34 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.8858° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.4678° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.596 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-27 21:48:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-19 03:42:00	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	222	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.506	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000mq2s	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mq2s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mq2s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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