A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/08/17 / 2017-08-04 05:50:00 / August 4, 2017 @ 5:50 am. The temblor was picked up at 13:50:00 / 1:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a6cs. Unique identifier: us2000a6cs. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.3684 East, latitude 23.8596 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km E of Hualian, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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