M 4.5 in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 12:17 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 1052950
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.0049 , 85.5638
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 12:17 UTC
25 Apr 2015 18:02 Local
Exposed Population:
5372628 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 13:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 872 | About casualties: 209 | Last hour: 0

Se eleva a 688 la cifra de muertos en el terremoto de NepalSat, 25 Apr 2015 17:54:00 +0200.

La cifra de muertos en el terremoto de 7,9 grados que golpeó hoy Nepal se eleva ya a 688, según fuentes oficiales, mientras los heridos se teme que superen el millar. Fuentes del Centro Nacional de Operación de Emergencia, dependiente del M
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MAE: No official confirmation of Romanian casualties in Nepal earthqua ... Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:52:00 +0200.

. Romania’s Embassy in New Delhi has conducted urgent action with the Nepalese authorities to get additional information about the possible existence of Romanian casualties among the victims of a magnitude-7.9 earthquake that occurred near
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Nepal earthquake death toll exceeds 1,100Sat, 25 Apr 2015 17:51:00 +0200.

Most of the deaths have been reported in Nepal. It was the worst tremor to hit the poor South Asian nation in over 80 years. Another 20 people were killed in India, six in Tibet and two in Bangladesh. Two Chinese citizens died at the Nepal-
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Firsthand Accounts of the DestructionSat, 25 Apr 2015 17:51:00 +0200.

As a devastating earthquake hit about 50 miles from Katmandu, the capital, Nepalese citizens took to social media to share information on the destruction, the dead and the injured. They posted photographs of collapsed buildings and let thei
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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),