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Light earthquake 4 mag, 26 km N of Taitung City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.9956S, 121.1609WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Friday. Id of earthquake: us10007t7s. Event ids that are associated: us10007t7s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:04:59 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 01:04:59 / December 16, 2016 @ 1:04 am. Exact location, longitude 121.1609° East, latitude 22.9956° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yujing, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 26 km N of Taitung City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1609° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.9956° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km N of Taitung City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-16 01:04:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-14 00:46:00 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 246 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 0.192 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 154 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007t7s Id of event.
Event Code 10007t7s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007t7s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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