A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location, longitude 121.6448° East, latitude 23.5778° North, depth = 19.933 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/06/24 / 2024-06-05 06:46:06 / June 5, 2024 @ 6:46 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mqfb. Id of event: us7000mqfb. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:46:06 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 19.933 km (12 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Hualian. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).
Each 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 ten, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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