M 4.8 in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 07:13 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 1052910
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.5458 , 85.5502
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 07:13 UTC
25 Apr 2015 12:58 Local
Exposed Population:
11662866 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 07:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5171 | About casualties: 665 | Last hour: 0

The Latest on Nepal: Under rubble, man says he drank urineWed, 29 Apr 2015 07:15:00 +0200.

10:30 a.m. (0445 GMT) A man pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kathmandu more than three days after the deadly Nepal earthquake says he drank his own urine to survive. Rishi Khanal tells The Associated Press that he had given
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Nobody knows just how bad things are in NepalWed, 29 Apr 2015 07:14:00 +0200.

Somewhere in there was his brother. Balang’s eyes followed the slow excavation on Tuesday morning before he showed a text message he received the previous night from his older sibling, Amit: “I need food and help.” Maybe Amit Balang, 33, wa
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Villagers in Nepal await helpWed, 29 Apr 2015 07:14:00 +0200.

Associated Press. PASLANG, Nepal. There is almost nothing left of this village but enormous piles of broken red bricks and heaps of mud and dust. One of those piles was once Bhoj Kumar Thapa’s home, where his pregnant wife pushed their 5-ye
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Donations sought to help aid earthquake victimsWed, 29 Apr 2015 07:14:00 +0200.

Staff report. YOUNGSTOWN. Catholic Relief Services, the official overseas relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, and Caritas Internationalis, the international aid and development agency of the Catholic Church, are resp
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),