Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nepal on 27 Feb 2017 03:37 UTC

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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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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),

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