Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 18:53:10 / August 20, 2024 @ 6:53 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us7000n8b5. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000n8b5. The temblor was picked up at 18:53:10 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 121.8591° East, latitude 24.1564° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 32 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.8591° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.1564° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km NE 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	2024-08-20 18:53:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-12 18:36:33	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	271	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	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us7000n8b5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000n8b5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000n8b5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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