M 4.6 in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 13:36 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 1052953
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.7476 , 85.89
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 13:36 UTC
25 Apr 2015 19:21 Local
Exposed Population:
6463326 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2015 13:57 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: 7812 | About casualties: 1299 | Last hour: 0

India envía más de 100 autobuses para sacar nacionales y extranjeros d ... Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:34:00 +0200.

Nueva Delhi, 27 abr.- La India ha enviado más de un centenar de autobuses a Katmandú para evacuar de Nepal por tierra a ciudadanos de su país y extranjeros, mientras prosigue también la evacuación aérea de damnificados por el terremoto, inf
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Nepal earthquake: Hamilton's Ross Prince describes bleak recovery workWed, 29 Apr 2015 13:32:00 +0200.

Hamilton's Ross Prince has joined the recovery efforts in Nepal while "stranded" in the earthquake-ravaged country. "It just tears you apart," Prince told NBC's Miguel Almaguer of the grim brick-by-brick recovery effort. Prince, 62, was in
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UK public raise more than £19m for Nepal in one dayWed, 29 Apr 2015 13:32:00 +0200.

Nepal earthquake: British national among dead as death toll rises. A non-resident British national is among those killed by the devastating earthquake in Nepal this weekend, the Foreign Office has confirmed. A team of UK rescue workers has
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El Gobierno de Navarra destina una ayuda extraordinaria de 100.000 eur ... Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:29:00 +0200.

El Gobierno de Navarra ha acordado en su sesión de este miércoles destinar una ayuda extraordinaria de 100.000 euros para Nepal, que será canalizada a través de Unicef, con el fin de paliar la catástrofe humanitaria consecuencia del terremo
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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),