M 4.8 in Nepal on 11 Jun 2015 16:12 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 1057346
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 24.84 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8091 , 85.5972
Event Date: 11 Jun 2015 16:12 UTC
11 Jun 2015 21:57 Local
Exposed Population:
6606246 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jun 2015 16:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 602 | About casualties: 45 | Last hour: 0

Nepal reabre valle de Katmandú al turismoMon, 15 Jun 2015 16:06:00 +0200.

La Habana, 15 jun (RHC) El gobierno de Nepal reabrió algunos de los sitios declarados Patrimonio de la Humanidad del valle de Katmandó, a dos mese del devastador terremoto de magnitud 7,8 que afectó la zona. Así, las plazas Durbar de Bhakta
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Nepal reopens key historic sitesMon, 15 Jun 2015 16:01:00 +0200.

Soldiers had clearing Kathmandu's Durbar Square ahead of the re-opening. Nepal has reopened many of the heritage sites in the Kathmandu valley to the public, in a bid to attract tourists after April's devastating earthquake. Among them was
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Nepal reopens tourist attractions after earthquakes despite Unesco saf ... Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:40:00 +0200.

Colourful costumes and ceremonial dancing masked the devastation of the April 25 and May 12 earthquakes in Nepal today as the country took a major step towards luring back tourists. Festive scenes greeted the re-opening of many of the count
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Nepal reopens tourist attractions after earthquakes despite Unesco saf ... Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:31:00 +0200.

Colourful costumes and ceremonial dancing masked the devastation of the April 25 and May 12 earthquakes in Nepal today as the country took a major step towards luring back tourists. Festive scenes greeted the re-opening of many of the count
...(more)

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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),