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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Yilan in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.8461S, 121.9421WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:11:32 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.9421° East, 24.8461° North, depth 111.08 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.08 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700069y7. Id of event: us700069y7. Global time and date of event 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 18:11:32 / November 11, 2019 @ 6:11 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan. This data 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 121.9421° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-11 18:11:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-21 00:24:48 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 0.423 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us700069y7 Id of event.
Event Code 700069y7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700069y7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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