M 4.7 in Taiwan on 05 Apr 2024 06:12 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 1422733
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8085 , 121.5836
Event Date: 05 Apr 2024 06:12 UTC
05 Apr 2024 14:12 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2024 06:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ma1q Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),