A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Jiayi Shi in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 13:10:54 / May 24, 2017 @ 1:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.85 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: us10008utf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008utf. Exact location, longitude 120.4946° East, latitude 23.3989° North, depth = 12.85 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:10:54 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma-kung, Kaohsiung, Taichung (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SSE of Jiayi Shi, Taiwan.
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