Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The temblor was reported at 13:58:21 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nz1z. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nz1z. Exact location, longitude 121.6717° East, latitude 23.995° North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 13:58:21 / October 16, 2024 @ 1:58 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Lugu, Yilan (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 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 five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km ENE 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	121.6717° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 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	2024-10-16 13:58:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-16 14:52:13	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	3.4	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	130	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.191	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	us6000nz1z	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nz1z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nz1z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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