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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on June 6, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.1681S, 121.6971WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.572 km (23 miles). Event id: us7000mqqp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mqqp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/24 / 2024-06-06 15:51:16 / June 6, 2024 @ 3:51 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6971 East, latitude 24.1681 North, depth = 37.572 km. The temblor was detected at 15:51:16 / 3:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Puli, Yilan (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 23 km (14 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6971° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1681° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.572 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-06 15:51:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-06 16:30:02 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 259 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 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000mqqp Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqqp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqqp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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