M 5.9 - TAIWAN - 2022-12-15 04:03:16 UTC

I felt this earthquake


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You felt this earthquake. Tell us!

Magnitude	Mw 5.9
Region	TAIWAN
Date time	2022-12-15 04:03:16.9 UTC
Location	23.79 N ; 121.84 E
Depth	10 km
Distances	124 km E of Taichung, Taiwan / pop: 1,040,000 / local time: 12:03:16.9 2022-12-15 32 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan / pop: 350,000 / local time: 12:03:16.9 2022-12-15

Source parameters reviewed by a seismologist

More information at:

Central Weather Bureau, Chinese Taipei

USGS/NEIC Denver, USA

GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany

Earthquake View	Interactive Maps View	I felt this earthquake	Contribution Map

Seismicity	Regional Moment tensors	Quick MT solutions	PGA/PGV/Population

Int_Dist	Dist_Time	Donut

No enough data for Intensity/Distance curve

For more information on computation, see the article Bossu et al., 2016:

Thumbnail Based Questionnaires for the Rapid and Efficient Collection of Macroseismic Data from Global Earthquakes, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès, Fréderic Roussel, Robert Steed, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Stacey S. Martin, and Susan Hough. Seismological Research Letter. Oct 2016. doi: 10.1785/0220160120;
Furthermore, to avoid the association with wrong events, we filter testimonies in distance and in intensity depending on the magnitude of the seismic event.

T0+Notification

T0+30min

T0+1H


Global view	Regional view	Local view

References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5.

Maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area

Regional instrumental seismicity

This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.

Regional deadly earthquakes from 1500 to origin time

Date

Long.

Lat.

Mag.

Death

Location

1661-02-15	120.2	23.0	6.0	many	TAIWAN
1720-10-31	120.3	23.0	5.5	many	TAIWAN
1721-01-05	120.3	23.0	6.0	many	TAIWAN
1736-01-30	120.3	23.1	6.0	372	TAIWAN
1776-12-00	120.5	23.5	5.5	many	TAIWAN
1777-11-00	120.5	23.5	5.5	many	TAIWAN
1792-08-09	120.5	23.6	6.8	617	TAIWAN
1815-10-13	121.2	25.2	6.5	113	TAIWAN
1839-06-27	120.4	23.4	6.5	117	TAIWAN
1845-03-04	120.5	24.1	6.0	381	TAIWAN
1848-12-03	120.5	24.1	6.8	2000	TAIWAN
1862-06-07	120.1	23.4	6.5	1000s	TAIWAN
1865-11-06	121.6	24.9	6.0	many	TAIWAN
1867-12-18	121.7	25.5	6.0	100s	TAIWAN
1897-03-19	121.8	24.7	6.0	56	TAIWAN
1904-11-06	120.3	23.5	6.2	145	TAIWAN
1906-03-17	120.5	23.6	6.8	1258	TAIWAN
1917-01-05	120.9	23.9	6.2	54	TAIWAN
1935-04-21	120.8	24.3	7.1	3276	TAIWAN
1935-07-17	120.8	24.6	6.5	44	TAIWAN
1941-12-17	120.3	23.3	7.0	357	TAIWAN
1946-12-05	120.3	23.1	6.8	58	TAIWAN
1951-10-22	121.3	23.7	7.2	68	TAIWAN
1964-01-18	120.6	23.1	7.0	106	TAIWAN
1999-09-20	121.0	23.8	7.7	2413	TAIWAN
2000-05-17	121.1	24.2	5.4	3	TAIWAN
2000-06-10	121.2	23.9	6.4	2	TAIWAN
2002-03-31	122.1	24.3	7.1	5	TAIWAN REGION
2002-05-15	121.9	24.7	6.1	1	TAIWAN
2004-05-01	121.6	24.1	5.2	2	TAIWAN
2013-03-27	121.1	23.8	6.0	1	TAIWAN
2013-06-02	121.1	23.8	6.2	4	TAIWAN
2015-04-20	122.5	24.2	6.4	1	TAIWAN REGION
2016-02-05	120.5	22.9	6.4	117	TAIWAN
2018-02-06	121.7	24.1	6.4	17	TAIWAN
2019-04-18	121.5	24.1	6.1	1	TAIWAN
2019-08-07	122.0	24.5	5.8	1	TAIWAN
2022-09-18	121.4	23.2	6.9	1	TAIWAN

Source:

From 1500 to 1999: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718
From 2000 to 2007: USGS Quality composite earthquake catalog
From 2008: National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA)

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Map created with the testimonies provided by the eyewitnesses (click to enlarge).

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