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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 67 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.9112S, 122.2655WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Saturday. Global time and date of event 07/12/24 / 2024-12-07 07:48:28 / December 7, 2024 @ 7:48 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.792 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:48:28 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 122.2655° East, 23.9112° North, depth 16.792 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nwu5. Unique identifier: us7000nwu5.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. 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: 67 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2655° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9112° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.792 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km E 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 2024-12-07 07:48:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-07 08:14:09 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 369 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 73 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000nwu5 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nwu5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nwu5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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