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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0751S, 121.6974WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.88 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/12/19 / 2019-12-31 19:10:10 / December 31, 2019 @ 7:10 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006sxv. Unique identifier: us70006sxv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6974 East, latitude 24.0751 North, depth = 11.88 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:10:10 / 3:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Puli, Hualian. Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6974° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NE 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 2019-12-31 19:10:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-31 20:05:39 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 326 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 0.135 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 64 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006sxv Id of event.
Event Code 70006sxv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006sxv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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