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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 38 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.8587S, 122.1208WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. The temblor was reported at 21:35:41 / 9:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 122.1208° East, 24.8587° North, depth 102.69 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 13:35:41 / August 12, 2016 @ 1:35 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006edk. Id of event: us10006edk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 102.69 km (64 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 38 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km ENE 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 2016-08-12 13:35:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-26 07:59:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.577 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us10006edk Id of event.
Event Code 10006edk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006edk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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