M 5.1 in Taiwan on 22 Apr 2024 09:12 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 1425278
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.7867 , 121.5642
Event Date: 22 Apr 2024 09:12 UTC
22 Apr 2024 17:12 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2024 09:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mdt2 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: 418 | About casualties: 55 | Last hour: 1

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Philippines urges earthquake preparedness2024-04-26T05:18+0200.

“Preparations for earthquakes, powerful and deadly tremors, must go beyond the usual ‘bend, cover and grab’ drills,” Ariel Nepomuceno, OCD director, said in a statement on Tuesday. “We need engineering solutions, and continued adherence to
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Application Tremblement de terre développée par des lycéens ! Entretie ... 2024-04-25T20:21+0200.

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Philippines urged to be earthquake-ready2024-04-25T18:39+0200.

MANILA, Philippines The Philippine government must strictly implement preparedness measures to prevent a high earthquake death toll, according to the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). “The preparations for earthquakes, the strong and potential
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),