M 5.3 in Taiwan on 27 Aug 2025 13:10 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 1497754
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 116 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.8266 , 121.913
Event Date: 27 Aug 2025 13:10 UTC
27 Aug 2025 21:10 Local
Exposed Population:
10.7 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Aug 2025 13:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qra8 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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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),