M 4.9 in Taiwan on 23 Apr 2024 16:02 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 1425551
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 7.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.0619 , 121.7117
Event Date: 23 Apr 2024 16:02 UTC
24 Apr 2024 00:02 Local
Exposed Population:
60 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 23 Apr 2024 17:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mt7l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 615 | About casualties: 44 | Last hour: 24

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 sacude frente a la costa de unas islas al ... 2024-04-27T16:02+0200.

Tokio.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 sacudió frente a la costa del conjunto de islas de Ogasawara, a unos 1.000 kilómetros al sur de Tokio, en el Océano Pacífico, donde se sintió con fuerza pero no activó la alerta de tsunami ni han constad
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 sacude islas al sur de Tokio2024-04-27T16:00+0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,9 sacudió frente a la costa del conjunto de islas de Ogasawara , a unos 1.000 kilómetros al sur de Tokio, en el Océano Pacífico, donde se sintió con fuerza. Sin embargo, el movimiento no activó la alerta de tsunam
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Magnitude-6.5 earthquake strikes Japan’s Bonin Islands2024-04-27T15:35+0200.

The US National Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami warning was issued prior to the earthquake. (Kyodo News/AP pic) RESTON: An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck Japan’s Bonin Islands, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on S
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Mainland ready to provide aid to quake-hit area of Hualien: spokespers ... 2024-04-27T15:28+0200.

BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, on Saturday said that the mainland is willing to provide mobile houses and other relevant materials to people in the area of Hualien in
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),