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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.6816S, 121.5545WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported Taiwan kilometers (0 miles) from Taiwan on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us60005143. Event ids that are associated: us60005143. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/08/19 / 2019-08-06 01:19:50 / August 6, 2019 @ 1:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.5545° East, latitude 23.6816° North, depth = 10 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:50 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou. Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5545° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-06 01:19:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-06 01:44:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 432 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 0.372 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us60005143 Id of event.
Event Code 60005143 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005143, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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