A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Event id: us1000ci03. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ci03. 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 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude 121.7239° East, latitude 24.0397° North, depth = 7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 02:18:02 / February 7, 2018 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 10:18:02 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Puli, Hualian.
Every 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 twelve, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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