M 5.2 in Taiwan on 06 Apr 2024 10:47 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 1422910
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 28.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8745 , 121.7218
Event Date: 06 Apr 2024 10:47 UTC
06 Apr 2024 18:47 Local
Exposed Population:
210 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 06 Apr 2024 11:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mafi 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.
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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),