M 4.5 in Nepal on 21 Jan 2016 19:22 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 1078997
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 12.25 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.0264 , 84.9933
Event Date: 21 Jan 2016 19:22 UTC
22 Jan 2016 01:07 Local
Exposed Population:
6298318 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2016 22:15 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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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),