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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Taitung City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.5944S, 121.4241WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 22:31:12 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.69 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000431g. Event ids that are associated: us1000431g. Exact location of earthquake, 121.4241° East, 22.5944° North, depth 17.69 km. Global time and date of event 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 14:31:12 / December 3, 2015 @ 2:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hengchun, Taitung City. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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: 33 km ESE of Taitung City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4241° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.5944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km ESE of Taitung 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 2015-12-03 14:31:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-03 14:48:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 400 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 0.387 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us1000431g Id of event.
Event Code 1000431g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000431g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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