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Light earthquake 4 mag, 52 km NE of Keelung, Taiwan


Earthquake location 25.4046S, 122.1691WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Keelung in Taiwan on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/03/19 / 2019-03-09 10:32:12 / March 9, 2019 @ 10:32 am. The temblor was picked up at 18:32:12 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 258.35 km (161 miles). Event id: us1000jiet. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000jiet. Exact location of event, longitude 122.1691 East, latitude 25.4046 North, depth = 258.35 km.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Banqiao, Taipei (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km NE of Keelung, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.1691° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.4046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 258.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km NE of Keelung, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-09 10:32:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-05 09:48:59 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 246 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 0.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us1000jiet Id of event.
Event Code 1000jiet An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jiet, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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