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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Taitung City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.6261S, 120.8319WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 11:56:46 / 11:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.32 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5.32 km, 120.8319° East, 22.6261° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/12/18 / 2018-12-25 03:56:46 / December 25, 2018 @ 3:56 am. Unique identifier: us2000ixch. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000ixch.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tainan, Hengchun, Yujing (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop).

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 twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 35 km WSW of Taitung City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.8319° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.6261° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km WSW of Taitung City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-25 03:56:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-25 04:17:58 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 298 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 0.298 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us2000ixch Id of event.
Event Code 2000ixch An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ixch, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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