Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Hengchun in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 121.3255° East, latitude 22.024° North, depth = 14.408 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/24 / 2024-07-08 21:50:37 / July 8, 2024 @ 9:50 pm. Unique identifier: us7000mxwz. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mxwz. The temblor was detected at 21:50:37 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.408 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taitung City, Hengchun (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two 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: 60 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.3255° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.024° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.408 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-08 21:50:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-08 22:41:01	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	271	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.822	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	150	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000mxwz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mxwz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mxwz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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