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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7614S, 121.517WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 20.204 km, 121.517° East, 23.7614° North. 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: 10/10/24 / 2024-10-10 12:40:50 / October 10, 2024 @ 12:40 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:40:50 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000nxtz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nxtz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.204 km (13 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and three 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.517° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.204 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km SSW 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 2024-10-10 12:40:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-10 13:54:54 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.417 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us6000nxtz Id of event.
Event Code 6000nxtz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nxtz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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