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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.5778S, 121.6448WA 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 44 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.5778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.933 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44 km S 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 2024-06-05 06:46:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-01 11:51:45 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 234 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.369 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us7000mqfb Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqfb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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