M 4.5 in Taiwan on 22 Apr 2024 17:40 UTC

Hazard models

Rapid Impact
Shakemap
Tsunami

Event summary

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

Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 18.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.7125 , 121.5622
Event Date: 22 Apr 2024 17:40 UTC
23 Apr 2024 01:40 Local
Exposed Population:
100 thousand in MMI IV
Source: NEIC us6000mt0g
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2024 18:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mt0g Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

The green area correspond to areas affected by strong shaking (MMI VI or higher) according to the simulation.


Episode Timeline

IDAlertScoreDateMag, DepthMMI*Population**Tsunami risk***Delay (hh:mm)Source
1566567 0 22 Apr 2024 17:40 4.5M, 18.5km 4.18 N/A (in MMI>=VII) N/A 00:27 NEIC
The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.
The episode that has the last updated information.
* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Rapid Impact

The results presented below are calculated with the ShakeMap open source software (USGS) using only earthquake hypocenter information to provide a rapid estimation of the ground motion and shaking intensity without taking into account any instrumental observations or earthquake source scaling laws.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Taiwan ,of Taiwan (population 126) . The alertlevel for this event is GREEN

Intensity Population
no people

Affected Provinces

Intensity Region Province Population
Taiwan <1000 people

Affected populated places. Areas of interest

Intensity Name Region Province City class Population Distance
Chia-lu-lan Hua-lien Village - 3 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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