M 4.8 in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 10:40 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 1052932
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.5667 , 85.8384
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 10:40 UTC
25 Apr 2015 16:25 Local
Exposed Population:
9420987 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 11:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 4269 | About casualties: 756 | Last hour: 0

4 Americans dead in Nepal quake; death toll soars past 4,000Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:47:00 +0200.

The State Department says at least four Americans have died in Nepal's earthquake. Spokesman Jeff Rathke says all of the U.S. citizens were killed at the Mt. Everest base camp. He identified two as Ely Taplin and Vinh B. Truong. The other t
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Devastación en Nepal dos días después de terremotoMon, 27 Apr 2015 23:46:00 +0200.

Los socorristas, acompañados de perros rastreadores, aterrizaron durante todo el día en el único aeropuerto internacional del país, en las afueras de Katmandú, una bulliciosa capital devastada el sábado por este terremoto de magnitud 7,8. E
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Enviará Cruz Roja Mexicana apoyos a NepalMon, 27 Apr 2015 23:46:00 +0200.

EN RELACIÓN; La Cruz Roja Mexicana dio a conocer que a partir de hoy la sociedad de nuestro país puede contribuir con donaciones a la población afectada del terremoto en Nepal ocurrido el pasado sábado. En conferencia de prensa, el presiden
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Girlfriend's heartbreak at death of Google Maps engineer Dan Fredinbur ... Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:45:00 +0200.

The girlfriend of a Google engineer who died in the deadly avalanche on Mount Everest described him as a magical person whose purpose in life was to constantly challenge himself. Ashley Arenson said boyfriend Dan Fredinburg, 33, had a way o
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),