A 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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