M 4.9 in Taiwan on 03 Apr 2024 06:10 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 1422399
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 19.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.0922 , 121.7035
Event Date: 03 Apr 2024 06:10 UTC
03 Apr 2024 14:10 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2024 06:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m9jn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),