M 4.5 in Bhutan on 10 Oct 2015 01:48 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 1068639
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 47.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2285 , 88.8025
Event Date: 10 Oct 2015 01:48 UTC
10 Oct 2015 07:18 Local
Exposed Population:
8094062 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2015 02:15 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 221 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Recognizing Older Persons in Humanitarian EffortsWed, 14 Oct 2015 01:30:00 +0200.

. Before the age of cell-phone videos and instantaneous Twitter news, the old adage "out of sight, out of mind" made it easy to ignore major disasters like the recent floods in my home state of South Carolina. With the 24/7 media coverage,
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Myanmar: International Technical Backstopper (ITB) on Development of S ... Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:32:00 +0200.

Background. The Ministry of Education, Government of Myanmar is implementing a project titled “Promoting Construction of Safe Schools in Myanmar through Development of National Guidelines, Identification of Improvements Needed in the Enabli
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Coordinan maniobras para devolver al mar embarcaciones varadas en Coqu ... Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:26:00 +0200.

En el marco de las gestiones desplegadas para superar la emergencia ocasionada por el terremoto y tsunami del 16 de septiembre pasado en nuestra Región, la empresa Tecnogrúas se encuentra instalando una mega grúa que permitirá el desvare de
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Estudiantes de La Serena donan alimentos a damnificados del terremoto ... Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:41:00 +0200.

Continúa la ayuda de estudiantes de La Serena a los damnificados del terremoto y tsunami del 16S, una ayuda vital para cientos de familias que además deberán tratar de sortear las lluvias pronosticadas para el martes y miércoles en la Regió
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),