M 4.5 in Taiwan on 26 Apr 2024 20:08 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 1426066
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 24.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.0586 , 122.0061
Event Date: 26 Apr 2024 20:08 UTC
27 Apr 2024 04:08 Local
Exposed Population:
860 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 27 Apr 2024 19:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mu4m 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: 530 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 8

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MIL-OSI USA: House Passes Bonamici Legislation to Improve Tsunami Warn ... 2024-04-30T20:10+0200.

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New study suggests the trigger of Tonga's volcanic eruption2024-04-30T20:05+0200.

This screen grab taken from footage taken by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite shows the volcanic eruption that provoked a tsunami in Tonga. Photo: Handout / National Institute of Information and Communications Technology / AFP. A newly publish
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Vuelve a entrar en erupción el Monte Ruang de Indonesia2024-04-30T19:12+0200.

Cenizas, arena y rocas cayeron del cielo en pueblos y ciudades de toda la región. El volcán Monte Ruang de Indonesia entró en erupción el martes por segunda vez en dos semanas, arrojando cenizas a casi 2 kilómetros (más de una milla) de alt
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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),