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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7072S, 121.635WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global time and date of event 12/02/19 / 2019-02-12 18:23:01 / February 12, 2019 @ 6:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 6.14 km, 121.635° East, 23.7072° North. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:23:01 / 2:23 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000jgs3. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000jgs3. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.14 km (4 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lugu, Puli, Hualian. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km S of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.635° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7072° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km S 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 2019-02-12 18:23:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-12 19:03:07 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 0.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us2000jgs3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgs3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgs3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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