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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Su’ao in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.7174S, 122.0336WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. Global time and date of event 03/11/15 / 2015-11-03 00:06:32 / November 3, 2015 @ 12:06 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us200041h2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200041h2. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.0336 East, latitude 24.7174 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 08:06:32 / 8:06 am (local time epicenter). 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) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian, Taoyuan City, Daxi (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 22 km NE of Su’ao, 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 122.0336° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.7174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NE of Su'ao, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-03 00:06:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-03 00:22:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.55 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us200041h2 Id of event.
Event Code 200041h2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041h2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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