M 4.6 in Taiwan on 18 Jan 2026 08:47 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 1520025
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 5.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.2902 , 121.8717
Event Date: 18 Jan 2026 08:47 UTC
18 Jan 2026 16:47 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2026 09:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rqed Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),