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Light earthquake 4 mag, 24 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7681S, 121.6929WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Friday. Id of earthquake: us7000n7i1. Event ids that are associated: us7000n7i1. Global time and date of event 16/08/24 / 2024-08-16 20:41:27 / August 16, 2024 @ 8:41 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.658 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 20:41:27 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6929° East, 23.7681° North, depth 16.658 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Hualian. Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 24 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6929° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.658 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km SSE 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 2024-08-16 20:41:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-17 16:29:07 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 246 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000n7i1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n7i1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n7i1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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