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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 16 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1128S, 121.6703WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/24 / 2024-08-28 20:14:52 / August 28, 2024 @ 8:14 pm. The temblor was picked up at 20:14:52 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000nnbq. Event ids that are associated: us6000nnbq. Exact location of event, longitude 121.6703 East, latitude 24.1128 North, depth = 30.438 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.438 km (19 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Puli, Yilan. Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-three 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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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. 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: 16 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6703° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.438 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km NNE 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 2024-08-28 20:14:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-28 21:00:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 298 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 87 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us6000nnbq Id of event.
Event Code 6000nnbq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nnbq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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