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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Taitung City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.8196S, 121.2131WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.2131 East, latitude 22.8196 North, depth = 26.49 km. Global time and date of event 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 08:08:00 / March 28, 2016 @ 8:08 am UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:08:00 / 4:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005cv1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005cv1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.49 km (16 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yujing, Taitung City. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 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 twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 9 km NE of Taitung City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.2131° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.8196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NE 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 2016-03-28 08:08:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-28 09:23:39 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 284 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 0.719 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 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 us20005cv1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005cv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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