M 5.1 in Taiwan on 07 Oct 2025 23:52 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 1504007
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9637 , 121.5584
Event Date: 07 Oct 2025 23:52 UTC
08 Oct 2025 07:52 Local
Exposed Population:
130 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 08 Oct 2025 00:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rfi6 Scaled population (vector) 1.32  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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), TWB (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),