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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 28 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan

Posted by admin on September 21, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.2283S, 121.6792WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location of event, depth 28.641 km, 121.6792° East, 24.2283° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.641 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000ntgm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ntgm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:51:08 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/24 / 2024-09-21 10:51:08 / September 21, 2024 @ 10:51 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Keelung, Hsinchu, Taoyuan City (min 5000 pop).

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 six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 28 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6792° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.641 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 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 2024-09-21 10:51:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-21 11:11:32 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 2.2 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 355 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us6000ntgm Id of event.
Event Code 6000ntgm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ntgm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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