M 5.7 in Taiwan from 26 Apr 2024 18:21 UTC to 18:21

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1426055
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 25.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.1449 , 121.674
Event Date: 26 Apr 2024 18:21 UTC
27 Apr 2024 02:21 Local
Exposed Population: 170 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2024 18:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mu3y Scaled population (raster) 0.78  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 533 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 12

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Impresionante erupción del volcán Ruang, Indonesia: miles de rayos det ... 2024-04-30T17:55+0200.

La nueva erupción del Ruang en Indonesia emitió grandes columnas de ceniza que alcanzaron los 19 kilómetros, además de expulsar gran cantidad de material piroclástico. Se detectaron más de 16000 rayos. 30/04/2024 16:48 4 min. Hace unas hor
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Ottant'anni di Coldiretti Arezzo: "Difendiamo il Made in Tuscany. Batt ... 2024-04-30T17:50+0200.

Coldiretti Arezzo festeggia 80 anni di storia rilanciando il protagonismo contadino insieme ad un nuovo patto con i consumatori. "Le parole chiave coordinate dal direttore Raffaello Betti che, risuonano in una Casa dell’Energia gremita in o
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),