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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1175S, 122.2641WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.316 km (17 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/24 / 2024-08-26 15:28:52 / August 26, 2024 @ 3:28 pm. Exact location, longitude 122.2641° East, latitude 24.1175° North, depth = 27.316 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:28:52 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000nmvg. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nmvg.

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2641° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.316 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km ENE 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 2024-08-26 15:28:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-26 16:19:25 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 284 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 38 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.614 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 45 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 us6000nmvg Id of event.
Event Code 6000nmvg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nmvg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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