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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.8706S, 121.6613WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.715 km (16 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nrn9. Id of event: us7000nrn9. The temblor was picked up at 02:38:16 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.6613 East, latitude 23.8706 North, depth = 25.715 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/24 / 2024-11-14 02:38:16 / November 14, 2024 @ 2:38 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Puli, Hualian. Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

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

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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. 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: 13 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6613° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.715 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km SSE 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 2024-11-14 02:38:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-14 03:21:09 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 90 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us7000nrn9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nrn9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nrn9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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