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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.9306S, 121.7517WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact location of event, longitude 121.7517 East, latitude 23.9306 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 14:19:20 / February 7, 2018 @ 2:19 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ci93. Unique identifier: us1000ci93. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:19:20 / 10:19 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Puli, Hualian. Epicenter of the event was 16 km (10 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km ESE of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7517° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ESE 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 2018-02-07 14:19:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-08 05:35:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 326 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 0.281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000ci93 Id of event.
Event Code 1000ci93 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ci93, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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