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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Yilan in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.4135S, 121.898WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 121.898 East, latitude 24.4135 North, depth = 10.862 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n74i. Id of event: us7000n74i. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:33:04 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.862 km (7 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/08/24 / 2024-08-15 09:33:04 / August 15, 2024 @ 9:33 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Keelung, Daxi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 40 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.898° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.4135° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.862 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-15 09:33:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-15 09:55:40 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 326 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us7000n74i Id of event.
Event Code 7000n74i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n74i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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