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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Buli in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0049S, 121.0059WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Buli in Taiwan on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 121.0059 East, latitude 24.0049 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:46:33 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 02:46:33 / May 8, 2016 @ 2:46 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005ft6. Unique identifier: us10005ft6.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (23 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hsinchu, Hualian, Douliu.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km NE of Buli, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.0059° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0049° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NE of Buli, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-08 02:46:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 03:23:56 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 4.9 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 312 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 0.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us10005ft6 Id of event.
Event Code 10005ft6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ft6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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