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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Yilan in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.8853S, 121.9164WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Monday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:53:30 / 3:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 121.9164 East, latitude 24.8853 North, depth = 113.8 km. Id of earthquake: us200065gk. Event ids that are associated: us200065gk. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113.8 km (71 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 07:53:30 / June 20, 2016 @ 7:53 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 five and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 21 km NE of Yilan, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9164° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km NE of Yilan, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-20 07:53:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-20 09:44:39 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 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 0.39 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us200065gk Id of event.
Event Code 200065gk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065gk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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