M 4.5 in Nepal on 05 Oct 2015 07:33 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 1068178
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.6148 , 86.075
Event Date: 05 Oct 2015 07:33 UTC
05 Oct 2015 13:18 Local
Exposed Population:
7183533 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Oct 2015 10:39 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: 412 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Japanese climber with one finger to start Everest climb againFri, 09 Oct 2015 06:07:00 +0200.

Kathmandu: A Japanese climber with only one finger due to frostbite, who last month failed to reach the top of Mount Everest, will make his final push for the summit late Wednesday, organisers said. Nobukazu Kuriki is making his fifth attem
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Kerung trade route to reopen from TuesdayFri, 09 Oct 2015 05:38:00 +0200.

Kathmandu, October 8. Movement of trucks and containers to/from Nepal and China along the popular trading route with China — Rasuwagadhi-Kerung — will be resumed from Tuesday. Some sections of the Rasuwagadhi-Kerung route in Nepal and Tibet
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Terremoto en Chile generó tsunami 'instantáneo', dice estudio chileno- ... Fri, 09 Oct 2015 05:33:00 +0200.

Santiago de Chile, EFE. El terremoto de magnitud 8,4 en la escala de Richter que el pasado 16 de septiembre sacudió varias regiones de Chile generó un tsunami "instantáneo", aseguró hoy Rodrigo Cienfuegos, gerente técnico del programa de in
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Globálne katastrofy môžu nastať kedykoľvek. Napríklad týchto päťFri, 09 Oct 2015 05:03:00 +0200.

V materiáli na portáli The Conversation to pripomenul fyzický geograf Matthew Blackett z University of Coventry (Veľká Británia), ktorý skúma prírodné hrozby. Stručne opísal päť príkladov katastrofických javov, ktoré by priamo postihli mili
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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),