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Table 1 List of M L > 6 earthquake events in offshore eastern Taiwan, recorded between 1994 and 2015

From: Numerical earthquake model of the 20 April 2015 southern Ryukyu subduction zone M6.4 event and its impact on seismic hazard assessment

No.

Date

Time

Long.

Lat.

Depth

Strike

Dip

Rake

M L

(yyyy/mm/dd)

(hh:mi:ss)

(°E)

(°N)

(km)

(°)

(°)

(°)

1

1994/05/23

15:16:58

122.64

23.68

5.54

292

21

142

6.00

2

1994/05/24

04:00:40

122.60

23.83

4.45

245

87

−66

6.60

3

1996/03/05

14:52:27

122.36

23.93

6.00

296

21

134

6.40

4

2001/12/18

04:03:00

122.65

23.87

12.00

209

58

−46

6.70

5

2002/03/31

06:52:49

122.19

24.14

13.81

287

35

112

6.80

6

2002/05/28

16:45:14

122.40

23.91

15.23

300

15

139

6.20

7

2004/11/08

15:54:55

122.76

23.79

10.00

290

21

137

6.58

8

2004/11/11

02:16:44

122.16

24.31

27.26

289a

36a

133a

6.09

9

2005/09/06

01:16:00

122.28

23.96

16.76

313

20

157

6.00

10

2006/07/28

07:40:10

122.66

23.97

27.97

299

33

139

6.02

11

2009/07/13

18:05:02

122.22

24.02

18.08

305

21

143

6.00

12

2013/06/07

16:38:02

122.65

23.98

35.32

296

18

133

6.21

13

2015/04/20

01:42:56

122.44

24.02

30.57

295b

26b

128b

6.38

14

2015/04/20

11:45:13

122.51

24.04

33.87

305b

20b

139b

6.15

  1. Event times, locations, and magnitudes are taken from the CWB earthquake catalogue. The focal mechanisms are derived from the US Geological Survey CMT solution
  2. aThe focal mechanism is derived from the Broadband Array in Taiwan for Seismology CMT solution
  3. bThe focal mechanism is derived from the Real-time Moment Tensor Monitoring System