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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Yujing in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.2618S, 120.8516WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/18 / 2018-07-03 09:20:58 / July 3, 2018 @ 9:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:20:58 / 5:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.8516° East, 23.2618° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fvmv. Id of event: us2000fvmv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaohsiung, Zhongxing New Village, Puli (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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 three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 42 km ENE of Yujing, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8516° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.2618° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ENE of Yujing, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-03 09:20:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-03 09:44:21 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 0.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000fvmv Id of event.
Event Code 2000fvmv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fvmv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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