M 4.9 in Taiwan on 07 Apr 2024 10:01 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 1423061
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 36.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.1202 , 122.0027
Event Date: 07 Apr 2024 10:01 UTC
07 Apr 2024 18:01 Local
Exposed Population:
660 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 07 Apr 2024 10:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mal5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),