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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 74 km E of Hualian, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0505S, 122.3351WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.3351 East, latitude 24.0505 North, depth = 24.53 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:47:05 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/18 / 2018-05-01 23:47:05 / May 1, 2018 @ 11:47 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000dvmt. Event ids that are associated: us1000dvmt. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.53 km (15 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian. Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 74 km E of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.3351° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km E 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 2018-05-01 23:47:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 00:11:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 402 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 0.687 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000dvmt Id of event.
Event Code 1000dvmt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dvmt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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