A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/24 / 2024-05-30 12:09:50 / May 30, 2024 @ 12:09 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 121.6918 East, latitude 24.1257 North, depth = 36.995 km. Event id: us7000mnyz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mnyz. The temblor was detected at 12:09:50 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.995 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Puli, Yilan.
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 18 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan.
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