M 4.9 in Taiwan Region on 01 Aug 2022 08:09 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 1333039
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 21.4757 , 121.1941
Event Date: 01 Aug 2022 08:09 UTC
01 Aug 2022 16:09 Local
Exposed Population:
110 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 01 Aug 2022 08:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us6000i74a Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.08  
  C2 rapid impact 0.4  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.71  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 40 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Inside USS Ronald Reagan, U.S. Aircraft Carrier Near Taiwan2022-08-02T17:57+0200.

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Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.6 just reported 76 km southeast of ... 2022-08-01T10:49+0200.

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake near Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, was reported only 14 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. The
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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 (1), USGS (2),