M 5 in Taiwan on 01 Sep 2015 13:24 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 1064384
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 20.82 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8987 , 121.5188
Event Date: 01 Sep 2015 13:24 UTC
01 Sep 2015 21:24 Local
Exposed Population:
4477446 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Sep 2015 16:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 241 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Japan - Regierung lässt Bewohner in die Nähe von Fukushima zurückkehre ... Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:27:00 +0200.

Trotz Kritik von Umweltaktivisten lässt Japan mehr als 7.000 Einwohner wieder in ihre Heimat nahe Fukushima zurückkehren. Die Regierung in Tokio hob die Evakuierungsanordnung für die Stadt Naraha viereinhalb Jahre nach der Atomkatastrophe v
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Evacuation order for Japanese town lifted more than four years after F ... Sat, 05 Sep 2015 13:26:00 +0200.

The evacuation order issued for a Japanese town near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has finally been lifted - more than four years after the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, and the resulting nuclear disaster. The approximately 7,400 resi
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Japan Lifts Evacuation Order for Town Near Doomed Nuke PlantSat, 05 Sep 2015 13:26:00 +0200.

Japan's government on Saturday lifted a 4 1/2-year-old evacuation order for the northeastern town of Naraha that had sent all of the town's 7,400 residents away following the disaster at the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant. Naraha became the
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Japan lifts evacuation order for town near doomed nuke plantSat, 05 Sep 2015 13:26:00 +0200.

NARAHA, Japan (AP) — Japan's government on Saturday lifted a 4 1/2-year-old evacuation order for the northeastern town of Naraha that had sent all of the town's 7,400 residents away following the disaster at the nearby Fukushima nuclear p
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),