M 5.2 in Taiwan on 22 Apr 2024 10:46 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 1425286
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.7074 , 121.595
Event Date: 22 Apr 2024 10:46 UTC
22 Apr 2024 18:46 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2024 11:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mdtc 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

Better Understanding Of Earthquake Risks 4/26/2024 10:22:00 AM.

When one tectonic plate slides underneath another tectonic plate, strong earthquakes result rather frequently. The severe earthquake off the coast of Taiwan in early April 2024 also took place at such a subduction interface. A study of rese
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),