Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shakes Hualien, tremors felt across Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/12/09
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
CWB map of tonight’s quake in Hualien.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake jolted eastern Taiwan’s Hualien County at 11:15 p.m. this evening, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).
The epicenter of the temblor was 11.7 kilometers west-northwest of Hualien County Hall at a shallow depth of 19.2 kilometers, based on CBW data.
The earthquake’s intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, registered a 5 on Taiwan’s 7-tiered intensity scale in Hualien County, a 4 in Nantou County and Taichung City, and 3 in Yilan County. An intensity level of 2 was recorded Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Changhua County, Yunlin County, Taitung County, and New Taipei City, while an intensity level of 1 was felt in Chiayi County, Hsinchu City, Taipei City, Miaoli County, and Kaohsiung City.
Located along the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, Taiwan uses an intensity scale of 1 to 7, which gauges the degree to which a quake is felt in a specific location. [FULL STORY]
