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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Su’ao in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.6744S, 121.9662WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:17:16 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 03:17:16 / May 12, 2016 @ 3:17 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 121.9662° East, latitude 24.6744° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005gpt. Id of event: us10005gpt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hsinchu, Hualian, Taoyuan City (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 14 km NE of Su’ao, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9662° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6744° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2016-05-12 03:17:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 03:58:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 34 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.14 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 499 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 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 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 us10005gpt Id of event.
Event Code 10005gpt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gpt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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