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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Yongkang in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Yongkang in Taiwan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/24 / 2024-11-22 12:40:18 / November 22, 2024 @ 12:40 pm. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:40:18 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.1859° East, 23.0913° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000p6ze. Event ids that are associated: us6000p6ze.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nantou, Lugu, Ma-kung (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 10 km NW of Yongkang, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.1859° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.0913° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km NW of Yongkang, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-22 12:40:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-22 13:05:23	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.458	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	us6000p6ze	Id of event.
Event Code	6000p6ze	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000p6ze,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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