M 5.5 in Taiwan on 03 Apr 2024 00:43 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 1422329
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 23.9598 , 121.5954
Event Date: 03 Apr 2024 00:43 UTC
03 Apr 2024 08:43 Local
Exposed Population: 90 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2024 01:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (China)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
us7000m9gm Scaled population (raster) 3.74  
  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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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.

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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),