M 6.1 in China on 18 Apr 2019 05:01 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 1176951
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9888 , 121.6934
Event Date: 18 Apr 2019 05:01 UTC
18 Apr 2019 13:01 Local
Exposed Population: 130000 people in MMI
1420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Apr 2019 06:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us700038c1 Scaled population (vector) 2.24  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.82  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 177 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

In a first, east Asian birds make Andaman stopoverSun, 21 Apr 2019 20:19:00 +0200.

Distinguished by the green and brown plumage on its back, the dimunitve Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo ( Chalcites basalis ) is a native of Australia and New Guinea. However, researcher G. Gokulkrishnan had an unexpected encounter with the tiny
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Taiwan NewsSun, 21 Apr 2019 15:02:00 +0200.

TAIPEI (The China Post) – Following the announcement of Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou’s presidential bid earlier this week, numerous online polls have already been... TAIPEI (CNA) – An increasing number of countries are backing Taiwan's effor
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Aging buildings a major concern for earthquakes: scholarFri, 19 Apr 2019 13:37:00 +0200.

TAIPEI (The China Post) – The question of Taipei’s aging buildings was raised again after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Hualien at 13.01 p.m. on April 18. The tremors caused a building on Chang’an East Road, Section 2 to lean and push a
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盆地效應北市大樓傾斜 學者：都更速度比不上房屋老化 | Aging houses a major concern...Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:15:00 +0200.

根據中央氣象局報導，4月18日13時01分發生規模6.1地震，震央位於花蓮縣秀林鄉，台北市長安東路一棟大樓因此傾斜，老舊房子議題再度引發關注。 TAIPEI (The China Post) – The question of Taipei’s aging houses was raised again after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Hualien at 13.01 p.m. on April 18. The tremors
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),