M 6.6 in Taiwan on 27 Dec 2025 15:05 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 1516973
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 67.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.6574 , 122.0406
Event Date: 27 Dec 2025 15:05 UTC
27 Dec 2025 23:05 Local
Exposed Population: 260 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2025 15:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000rl2n Scaled population (raster) 0.7 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.82      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (92), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), TWB (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),