M 4.5 in Nepal on 25 Apr 2015 23:41 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 1052991
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.5598 , 85.9359
Event Date: 25 Apr 2015 23:41 UTC
26 Apr 2015 05:26 Local
Exposed Population:
9001347 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2015 00:09 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: 7761 | About casualties: 1129 | Last hour: 0

Nepal flight carrying Brits set to land at Stansted AirportWed, 29 Apr 2015 23:39:00 +0200.

The flight has now left the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, where a devastating earthquake struck on Saturday, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said. Meanwhile, Britain is preparing to send RAF Chinook helicopters to Nepal to help with the reli
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Bimla’s expedition called off, may reach city by weekendWed, 29 Apr 2015 23:38:00 +0200.

Nagpur: City mountaineer Bimla Negi Deoskar and her team have decided to call off their Everest expedition and are expected to return in a couple of days. On Wednesday, Bimla and other Everest climbers met Nima Tsering, vice-chairman of Chi
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Nepal earthquake: Overworked hospitals brace for cholera outbreakWed, 29 Apr 2015 23:38:00 +0200.

KATHMANDU: A big threat looms over Nepal again, and this time it is not naysayers predicting another earthquake. Experts and health officials said on Wednesday that if sanitation issues are not dealt urgently and no provisions are made for
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Nepal earthquake: Drank own urine in 82-hour ordealWed, 29 Apr 2015 23:38:00 +0200.

KATHMANDU: A man pulled from the rubble of a collapsed hotel by a French rescue team more than three days after the deadly Nepal earthquake says he was forced to drink his own urine to survive. Rishi Khanal, 27, had just finished lunch at a
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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),