Overall Green Earthquake alert in Taiwan on 03 Apr 2024 04:34 UTC

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M 4.8 in Taiwan on 03 Apr 2024 04:34 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 1422382
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	24.0117 , 121.6846
Event Date:	03 Apr 2024 04:34 UTC 03 Apr 2024 12:34 Local
Exposed Population:	270 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	03 Apr 2024 05:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000m9iz	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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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