Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/08/19 / 2019-08-06 01:31:30 / August 6, 2019 @ 1:31 am. Exact location, longitude 121.5842° East, latitude 23.6437° North, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:30 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us60005145. Event ids that are associated: us60005145. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km S of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.5842° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.6437° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km 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	2019-08-06 01:31:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-06 01:56:19	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	385	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	0.363	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 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	us60005145	Id of event.
Event Code	60005145	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60005145,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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