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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1948S, 121.6791WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The temblor was detected at 21:12:53 / 9:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.47 km (5 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.47 km, 121.6791° East, 24.1948° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000cfmu. Unique identifier: us1000cfmu. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 13:12:53 / February 4, 2018 @ 1:12 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nantou, Lugu, Zhongxing New Village. Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km NNE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6791° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNE of Hualian, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-04 13:12:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 13:29:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.2 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 434 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 0.079 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us1000cfmu Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfmu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfmu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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