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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, 43 km SE of Taitung City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.4546S, 121.4121WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, 121.4121° East, 22.4546° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000jc88. Event ids that are associated: us1000jc88. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/03/19 / 2019-03-08 02:32:13 / March 8, 2019 @ 2:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 10:32:13 / 10:32 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hengchun, Taitung City.

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 twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 43 km SE of Taitung City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4121° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.4546° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SE 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 2019-03-08 02:32:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-08 02:59:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.971 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 449 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 0.474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us1000jc88 Id of event.
Event Code 1000jc88 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jc88, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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