136 km SE of Taipei, Taiwan / pop: 7,871,900 / local time: 09:42:55.5 2015-04-20
97 km E of Hualian, Taiwan / pop: 350,468 / local time: 09:42:55.5 2015-04-20
56 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan / pop: 1,684 / local time: 10:42:55.5 2015-04-20
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.
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
1771-04-24
124.3
24.0
7.4
12000
SOUTHWESTERN RYUKYU ISL., JAPAN
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
Source:
From 1500 to 1999: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718
Testimonies, photos
Central Weather Bureau, Chinese Taipei
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