M 5 in Taiwan on 17 Apr 2024 09:17 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 1424516
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 34.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.8887 , 121.7347
Event Date: 17 Apr 2024 09:17 UTC
17 Apr 2024 17:17 Local
Exposed Population:
620 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2024 09:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mcmb 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, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1165 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 15

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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),