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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 36 km SE of Yilan, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.5244S, 122.0137WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 66.42 km (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 18:15:08 / December 10, 2020 @ 6:15 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:15:08 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 122.0137° East, latitude 24.5244° North, depth = 66.42 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cpua. Unique identifier: us7000cpua.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 36 km SE of Yilan, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.0137° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5244° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km SE 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 2020-12-10 18:15:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 18:33:00 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 369 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 0.517 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000cpua Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpua An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpua, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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