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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 29 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0815S, 121.8759WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Event id: us7000nq32. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nq32. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.306 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:08:27 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 05/11/24 / 2024-11-05 18:08:27 / November 5, 2024 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8759 East, latitude 24.0815 North, depth = 37.306 km.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 29 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.306 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 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 2024-11-05 18:08:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-05 19:48:09 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 326 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000nq32 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nq32 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nq32, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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