M 5 in Nepal on 06 Mar 2013 16:49 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 123131
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.7312 , 82.2176
Event Date: 06 Mar 2013 16:49 UTC
06 Mar 2013 22:34 Local
Exposed Population:
3410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2013 17:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us2013mka1 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)

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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),