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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Su’ao in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.6694S, 121.8785WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85.19 km (53 miles). Exact location of event, depth 85.19 km, 121.8785° East, 24.6694° North. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:42:10 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/03/18 / 2018-03-06 09:42:10 / March 6, 2018 @ 9:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000dctp. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dctp.

Epicenter of the event was 55 km (34 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hsinchu, Hualian, Taoyuan City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km NNE of Su’ao, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8785° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.6694° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km NNE of Su'ao, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-06 09:42:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-06 11:09:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 0.457 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us2000dctp Id of event.
Event Code 2000dctp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dctp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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