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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1237S, 122.0164WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact location of earthquake, 122.0164° East, 24.1237° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us700033d7. Ids that are associated to the event: us700033d7. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/04/19 / 2019-04-09 22:57:49 / April 9, 2019 @ 10:57 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:57:49 / 6:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Hualian.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 44 km ENE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.0164° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ENE 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 2019-04-09 22:57:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-09 23:16:31 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 340 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 0.388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us700033d7 Id of event.
Event Code 700033d7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700033d7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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