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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hengchun in Taiwan

Posted by admin on September 9, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 22.4729S, 121.8432WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 124 kilometers (77 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Monday. Unique identifier: us6000nqml. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nqml. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8432 East, latitude 22.4729 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:18:56 / 1:18 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/24 / 2024-09-09 13:18:56 / September 9, 2024 @ 1:18 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taitung City (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 124 km ENE of Hengchun, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8432° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.4729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124 km ENE 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 2024-09-09 13:18:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-09 14:15:01 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.784 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us6000nqml Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqml An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqml, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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