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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Hengchun in Taiwan

Posted by admin on July 29, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.701S, 121.034WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 121.034° East, 21.701° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/24 / 2024-07-29 14:12:03 / July 29, 2024 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:12:03 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ngnn. Id of event: us6000ngnn.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hengchun (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 45 km SE of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.034° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km SE 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 2024-07-29 14:12:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-29 16:37:35 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 340 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us6000ngnn Id of event.
Event Code 6000ngnn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ngnn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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