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


Earthquake location 23.5462S, 121.6662WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/11/24 / 2024-11-06 17:19:36 / November 6, 2024 @ 5:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 121.6662° East, 23.5462° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:19:36 / 5:19 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000nqa4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nqa4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taitung City, Lugu, Puli (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 48 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6662° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.5462° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km S 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 2024-11-06 17:19:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-06 17:41:59 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 3.1 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us7000nqa4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqa4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqa4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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