M 6.2 in China on 24 Oct 2021 05:11 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 1291896
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 64.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.5714 , 121.8303
Event Date: 24 Oct 2021 05:11 UTC
24 Oct 2021 13:11 Local
Exposed Population: 420000 people in MMI
11 million in 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2021 05:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000fx56 Scaled population (raster) 1.51 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.82      
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Taiwan - Earthquake (ECHO 25 Oct 2021)Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:25

  • An earthquake of 6.2M at a depth of 64 km occurred in north-eastern Taiwan on 24 October at 5.11 UTC (13.11 local time). The epicentre was located inland approximately 5 km south of Su-ao Town (Yilan County) and 50 km south-east of Taipei area.
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 434,000 people were exposed to strong shaking.
  • Media report, as of 25 October, some injured people and a number of buildings with minor damage across the Yilan County. The earthquake was felt across northern, eastern and western parts of Taiwan. The Taipei metro was briefly closed, but re-opened shortly afterwards.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),