M 5.7 in Taiwan Region from 10 Oct 2022 19:24 UTC to 19:24

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1341451
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 17.901 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9334 , 122.2898
Event Date: 10 Oct 2022 19:24 UTC
11 Oct 2022 03:24 Local
Exposed Population: 730 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2022 19:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000isjn Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),