M 4.7 in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 21:07 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 1052978
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.732 , 85.7266
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 21:07 UTC
26 Apr 2015 02:52 Local
Exposed Population:
6676048 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 21:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3296 | About casualties: 640 | Last hour: 0

Nepal earthquake: Facebook and Google launch online tools to help fami ... Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:42:00 +0200.

Facebook's Safety Centre and Google's Person Finder are online tools for finding people in the earthquake danger zone. Two of the world's biggest technology companies have launched online tools to help find people affected by the 7.8 earth
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Nepal earthquake: Helicopter rescues stranded climbersMon, 27 Apr 2015 14:42:00 +0200.

Video claims to show some of the first people being rescued from Mount Everest following a deadly avalanche triggered by an 7.
Nepal earthquake: Amanda Holden's sister escapes Everest avalancheMon, 27 Apr 2015 14:42:00 +0200.

Britain's Got Talent host Amanda Holden reveals her sister Debbie was climbing Mount Everest and 'very lucky' to survive ....
Desperate Nepalis flee capital as aftershocks spread fearMon, 27 Apr 2015 14:42:00 +0200.

Bhaktapur, Reuters—Thousands of Nepalis began fleeing the capital Kathmandu on Monday, terror-stricken by two days of powerful aftershocks and looming shortages of food and water after an earthquake that killed more than 3,700 people. A sen
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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),