M 5.1 in Taiwan Region on 23 Jun 2022 22:32 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 1327844
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 25.82 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.1768 , 122.4412
Event Date: 23 Jun 2022 22:32 UTC
24 Jun 2022 06:32 Local
Exposed Population:
4.2 million in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2022 23:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hjs7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 177 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.5 just reported 55 km southwest of ... 2022-06-27T23:04+0200.

Just 19 minutes ago, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The tremor was recorded early morning on Tuesday, June 28th, 2022, at 4:43 am local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The even
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A 4.7-magnitude earthquake occurred in the waters of Pingtung County, ... 2022-06-27T22:55+0200.

2022-06-27T20:53:32.023Z. China News Service, Beijing, June 28. China Earthquake Networks officially determined that an earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred in the waters of Pingtung County, Taiwan (22.08 degrees north latitude, 120.13 deg
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Moderate 4.9 quake hits near Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung, Taiwan2022-06-27T22:35+0200.

A shallow magnitude 4.9 earthquake was reported early morning near Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Tuesday, June 28th, 2022, at 4:07 am local time at a shall
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A 4.1-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Hualien County, T ... 2022-06-26T22:44+0200.

2022-06-26T20:41:21.695Z. China News Service, Beijing, June 27th. China Earthquake Networks officially determined that an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 occurred in the waters of Hualien County, Taiwan (23.71 degrees north latitude, 121.55 de
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),