M 5.6 in Taiwan on 03 Apr 2024 01:39 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1422337
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 14.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8173 , 121.7886
Event Date: 03 Apr 2024 01:39 UTC
03 Apr 2024 09:39 Local
Exposed Population: 240 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2024 02:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m9h9 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 2694 | About casualties: 281 | Last hour: 6

Fatal Rumble2024-04-07T01:45+0200.

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Taiwan helicopters pluck quake-stranded tourists to safety2024-04-07T00:43+0200.

HUALIEN, Taiwan — Taiwan rescue helicopters flew sorties on Saturday to pluck tourists to safety after a massive earthquake cut off roads and blocked tunnels, leaving hundreds stranded for days in the mountains. At least 10 people were kill
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[07/April/2024] SAIPAN April 07. 2024 (Saba) - An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, without initial tsunami warnings being issued. The Xinhua News Agency quoted the German
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), TWB (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),