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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Taitung City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.19S, 121.6187WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. Exact location, longitude 121.6187° East, latitude 23.19° North, depth = 25.27 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j1cx. Unique identifier: us2000j1cx. 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 25.27 km (16 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/19 / 2019-01-08 12:16:45 / January 8, 2019 @ 12:16 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:16:45 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km NE of Taitung City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6187° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.19° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km NE 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 2019-01-08 12:16:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-08 12:38:01 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 369 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 0.357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us2000j1cx Id of event.
Event Code 2000j1cx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j1cx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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