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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Ma-kung in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.4018S, 118.5964WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Ma-kung in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.96 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:57:25 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hwix. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwix. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 118.5964 East, latitude 23.4018 North, depth = 14.96 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 23:57:25 / November 25, 2018 @ 11:57 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ma-kung. Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 102 km W of Ma-kung, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 118.5964° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km W of Ma-kung, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-25 23:57:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-26 00:28:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.45 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 491 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 1.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us1000hwix Id of event.
Event Code 1000hwix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hwix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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