M 4.6 in Taiwan on 10 Apr 2024 09:09 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 1423508
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 25.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8862 , 121.668
Event Date: 10 Apr 2024 09:09 UTC
10 Apr 2024 17:09 Local
Exposed Population:
240 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2024 12:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mb67 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

World Earthquake Report for Sunday, 14 April 2024 4/14/2024 7:40:00 AM.

This report is being updated every hour. Magnitude 5 +: 6 earthquakes Magnitude 4 +: 31 earthquakes Magnitude 3 +: 111 earthquakes Magnitude 2 +: 218 earthquakes No quakes of magnitude 6 or higher. Total seismic energy estimate: 3.7 x 10
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4.5 magnitude earthquake in Greece: it is the second earthquake in a f.. 4/14/2024 7:34:00 AM.

Listen to the audio version of the article. An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 is reported by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Greece. The shock was felt at 4.23 am, Italian time, 5.23 am local time, north of Athen
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ROK Government Decides to Provide US$500,000 in Humanitarian Aid to Ta.. 4/14/2024 12:35:00 AM.

1 . The government of the Republic of Korea will provide Taiwan with US$500,000 in humanitarian aid to help it respond to the earthquake that occurred in its eastern part on April 3. ? As of April 10, the earthquake left 16 people dead and
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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 (2), USGS (2),