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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0832S, 121.8625WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The temblor was picked up at 02:27:31 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8625 East, latitude 24.0832 North, depth = 8.2 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d6zd. Unique identifier: us2000d6zd. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.2 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/02/18 / 2018-02-14 18:27:31 / February 14, 2018 @ 6:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Yilan, Hualian. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 six, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km ENE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8625° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0832° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km ENE 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 2018-02-14 18:27:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-12 17:10:57 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 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us2000d6zd Id of event.
Event Code 2000d6zd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d6zd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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