M 4.8 in Taiwan on 21 Sep 2024 10:51 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 1446591
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 28.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.2283 , 121.6792
Event Date: 21 Sep 2024 10:51 UTC
21 Sep 2024 18:51 Local
Exposed Population:
440 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2024 11:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.6 (Taiwan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ntgm 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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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), TWB (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),