M 4.6 in Taiwan on 11 May 2024 05:16 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 1428279
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 13.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8482 , 121.6543
Event Date: 11 May 2024 05:16 UTC
11 May 2024 13:16 Local
Exposed Population:
240 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 11 May 2024 05:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxx5 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, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 440 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Whakatāne residents don’t know where to go in tsunami alert2024-05-14T23:03+0200.

Submissions to Whakatāne District Council’s Long-term Plan have left councillors worried that people don’t know where to go during a tsunami alert. The council’s instructions in the case of a tsunami warning or a long or strong earthquake i
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Dos policías frente al terrorismo de Tsunami: "Temí por mi vida y teng ... 2024-05-14T22:54+0200.

"Sí que sentí en algún momento peligro por mi vida. De hecho mi integridad física resultó dañada gravemente y tengo secuelas psíquicas". Este ha sido uno de los testimonios que el juez de la Audiencia Nacional Manuel García Castellón ha esc
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Un tsunami de huevos fritos en Villafranca de Córdoba2024-05-14T22:31+0200.

La Gran Huevada es ya una marca registrada por el Ayuntamiento, que se ha convertido con el paso de los años -y ya son 42- en una fiesta singular, a la que acuden visitantes de toda Andalucía, que llegan a fletar autobuses y montan sus part
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Santander: se registró un sismo de magnitud 3.1 en el municipio de Los ... 2024-05-14T22:25+0200.

En Colombia la intensidad de los sismos se mide con la Escala Macrosísmica Europea (EMS-98), la cual parte de la intensidad 2, descrita como "apenas sentido" por muy pocas personas en reposo; el nivel 3 es catalogado como "sentido levemente
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),