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Light earthquake 4 mag, 33 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0175S, 121.9321WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Unique identifier: us6000nj3s. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nj3s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:20:53 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 08:20:53 / July 26, 2024 @ 8:20 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.153 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 121.9321 East, latitude 24.0175 North, depth = 31.153 km.

The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9321° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.153 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km E 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 2024-07-26 08:20:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-21 08:41:41 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us6000nj3s Id of event.
Event Code 6000nj3s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nj3s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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