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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Jiayi Shi in Taiwan

Posted by admin on April 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.426S, 120.4537WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Jiayi Shi in Taiwan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:02:29 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 120.4537° East, latitude 23.426° North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 17/04/18 / 2018-04-17 20:02:29 / April 17, 2018 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000e1x5. Event ids that are associated: us2000e1x5.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Puli, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km S of Jiayi Shi, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.4537° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.426° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S of Jiayi Shi, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-17 20:02:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-18 00:34:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 189 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 0.204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000e1x5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000e1x5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e1x5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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