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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 47 km E of Yilan, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.8382S, 122.2145WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 100.6 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 122.2145 East, latitude 24.8382 North, depth = 100.6 km. Global time and date of event 25/01/21 / 2021-01-25 11:39:23 / January 25, 2021 @ 11:39 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000d348. Event ids that are associated: us7000d348. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:39:23 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km E of Yilan, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2145° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.8382° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km E 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 2021-01-25 11:39:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-25 12:26:09 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 298 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 0.665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us7000d348 Id of event.
Event Code 7000d348 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d348, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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