Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.917 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.7303 East, latitude 23.9169 North, depth = 21.917 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:16:50 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/09/24 / 2024-09-07 05:16:50 / September 7, 2024 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nq8y. Id of event: us6000nq8y.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Yilan, Puli (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 14 km (9 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.7303° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.9169° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.917 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km ESE 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	2024-09-07 05:16:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-07 05:34:48	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	400	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	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.284	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000nq8y	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nq8y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nq8y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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