Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Hengchun in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16.672 km (10 miles). Unique identifier: us7000nphz. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nphz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:27:32 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.029 East, latitude 21.227 North, depth = 16.672 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 06:27:32 / November 2, 2024 @ 6:27 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hengchun. Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 90 km SSE of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.029° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	21.227° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16.672 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90 km SSE of Hengchun, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-02 06:27:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-02 07:12:42	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	385	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	43	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us7000nphz	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nphz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nphz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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