M 5.9 in Taiwan on 11 Jun 2025 11:00 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 1485525
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 31.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.3301 , 121.6211
Event Date: 11 Jun 2025 11:00 UTC
11 Jun 2025 19:00 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 11 Jun 2025 11:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qjj5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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.
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

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Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is , a city of 1 million people in Taiwan , in 97 km (60 mi) distance northwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. Many smaller tow
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Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Tainan , a city with more than 770,000 inhabitants in Taiwan , in 38 km (24 mi) distance southwest of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there.
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Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers we.. 6/13/2025 5:18:00 AM.

They were told their government wasn’t coming for them, and this was true. Months had passed since they had been hauled from the scam compounds of Myanmar’s lawless borderlands and put here, a holding camp, of sorts; a place to wait under t
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Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers we.. 6/13/2025 5:18:00 AM.

They were told their government wasn’t coming for them, and this was true. Months had passed since they had been hauled from the scam compounds of Myanmar’s lawless borderlands and put here, a holding camp, of sorts; a place to wait under t
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), TWB (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),