Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Yujing in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 13:49:10 / July 26, 2024 @ 1:49 pm. The temblor was reported at 13:49:10 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.897 km (13 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 120.6746 East, latitude 22.8261 North, depth = 20.897 km. Event id: us6000ng4h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ng4h.

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hengchun, Tainan, Taitung City. Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 39 km SSE of Yujing, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.6746° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.8261° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.897 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39 km SSE of Yujing, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-26 13:49:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-28 14:22:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	314	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.374	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us6000ng4h	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ng4h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ng4h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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