M 4.5 in Taiwan from 26 Aug 2026 21:47 UTC to 21:47

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1561994
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 22.8442 , 121.5726
Event Date: 26 Aug 2026 21:47 UTC
27 Aug 2026 05:47 Local
Exposed Population:
310 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Aug 2026 22:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000tc37 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.
Virtual OSOCC
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),