M 5 in Taiwan on 06 Apr 2024 01:37 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 1422844
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.6231 , 122.0155
Event Date: 06 Apr 2024 01:37 UTC
06 Apr 2024 09:37 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 06 Apr 2024 02:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mace Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),