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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Posted by admin on July 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.3123S, 120.3684WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Kaohsiung in Taiwan on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.89 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 22/06/16 / 2016-06-22 16:19:28 / June 22, 2016 @ 4:19 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:19:28 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gbr. Id of event: us20006gbr. Exact location of event, longitude 120.3684 East, latitude 22.3123 North, depth = 6.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taitung City, Yujing, Tainan. Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop), 91 km (56 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km S of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.3684° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.3123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km S of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-22 16:19:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-21 04:17:22 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 0.828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us20006gbr Id of event.
Event Code 20006gbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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