Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/24 / 2024-12-31 18:52:07 / December 31, 2024 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:52:07 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.648 km (16 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pgpr. Id of event: us6000pgpr. Exact location of event, longitude 121.7217 East, latitude 24.3008 North, depth = 25.648 km.

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Taipei, Puli.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 37 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.7217° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.3008° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.648 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37 km NNE 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	2024-12-31 18:52:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-31 20:20:57	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	234	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	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.172	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us6000pgpr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pgpr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pgpr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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