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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Hengchun in Taiwan

Posted by admin on November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.9599S, 121.4559WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.13 km (39 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cfjs. Id of event: us7000cfjs. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 07:19:11 / November 16, 2020 @ 7:19 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 62.13 km, 121.4559° East, 21.9599° North. The temblor was picked up at 07:19:11 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taitung City, Hengchun. Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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: 73 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4559° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.9599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-16 07:19:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-16 07:38:29 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 354 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 0.922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us7000cfjs Id of event.
Event Code 7000cfjs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cfjs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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