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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Hengchun in Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.4872S, 121.1052WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan. Unique identifier: us6000dd02. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dd02. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:45:32 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 121.1052 East, latitude 22.4872 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/01/21 / 2021-01-23 03:45:32 / January 23, 2021 @ 3:45 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kaohsiung, Hengchun, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).

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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 65 km NE of Hengchun, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.4872° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km NE 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 2021-01-23 03:45:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-30 00:15:48 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 284 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 0.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us6000dd02 Id of event.
Event Code 6000dd02 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dd02, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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