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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 38 km WNW of Hengchun, Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.1087S, 120.3903WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 21:54:37 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.09 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20005y1a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005y1a. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/16 / 2016-05-25 13:54:37 / May 25, 2016 @ 1:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 120.3903° East, 22.1087° North, depth 28.09 km.

Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kaohsiung, Hengchun.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km WNW of Hengchun, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.3903° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.1087° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km WNW of Hengchun, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-25 13:54:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-26 05:52:14 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 271 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 0.951 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us20005y1a Id of event.
Event Code 20005y1a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005y1a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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