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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0413S, 121.759WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Taiwan kilometers (0 miles) from Taiwan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 18:07:39 / February 6, 2018 @ 6:07 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000chjm. Unique identifier: us1000chjm. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:07:39 / 6:07 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.759° East, 24.0413° North, depth 11.09 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.09 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Daxi, Puli.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.759° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0413° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-06 18:07:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-06 18:27:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 432 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 0.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us1000chjm Id of event.
Event Code 1000chjm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000chjm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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