M 4.7 in Nepal on 15 Aug 2015 18:11 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 1063143
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 26.54 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.656 , 85.8873
Event Date: 15 Aug 2015 18:11 UTC
15 Aug 2015 23:56 Local
Exposed Population:
7745913 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2015 20:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 449 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Ventura could be hit by tsunami in hypothetical 7.7 earthquake, study ... Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:36:00 +0200.

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Communicating in Disasters: 4 Lessons LearnedWed, 19 Aug 2015 17:33:00 +0200.

Today on World Humanitarian Day, the world will pay tribute to aid workers who have died in service, and celebrate the spirit of humanitarianism around the world. "World Humanitarian Day also offers the opportunity to reflect on the challen
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Nepal : appel à la solidarité pour des hélicoptèresWed, 19 Aug 2015 17:22:00 +0200.

Lundi, les Nations Unies ont tiré la sonnette d’alarme : elles vont être contraintes de clouer au sol leur flotte de six hélicoptères au Népal – ils sont utilisés pour acheminer de l’aide d’urgence depuis le tremblement de terre – si des fo
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Greater tsunami risk from Southern California quake, study findsWed, 19 Aug 2015 16:20:00 +0200.

. An earthquake along the California coast could pose a greater tsunami threat to the Ventura area than previously understood, according to a new study published Tuesday by UC Riverside and U.S. Geological Survey scientists. Published in t
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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),