Overall Green Earthquake alert in Taiwan on 27 Dec 2025 16:45 UTC

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M 4.5 in Taiwan on 27 Dec 2025 16:45 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 1516984
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	62.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	24.5968 , 122.0614
Event Date:	27 Dec 2025 16:45 UTC 28 Dec 2025 00:45 Local
Exposed Population:	380 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	27 Dec 2025 17:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000rl3a	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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