M 4.7 in Nepal on 27 Feb 2017 03:37 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 1106560
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.4959 , 86.1687
Event Date: 27 Feb 2017 03:37 UTC
27 Feb 2017 09:22 Local
Exposed Population:
8310000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2017 04:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nepal= 5.9; India= 4.6; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008mll Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),