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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Su’ao in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.6107S, 122.1443WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.1443 East, latitude 24.6107 North, depth = 69.92 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:01:30 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/16 / 2016-01-03 14:01:30 / January 3, 2016 @ 2:01 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 69.92 km (43 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004b0v. Unique identifier: us10004b0v.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Hualian, Banqiao. Close 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km E of Su’ao, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km E 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 2016-01-03 14:01:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-03 15:16:01 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 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 298 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 0.663 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us10004b0v Id of event.
Event Code 10004b0v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004b0v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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