M 5 in Nepal on 21 Feb 2016 18:10 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 1081068
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 19.24 Km
Lat/Lon: 28.0107 , 84.7447
Event Date: 21 Feb 2016 18:10 UTC
21 Feb 2016 23:55 Local
Exposed Population:
7550967 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2016 19:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 421 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Japón: Fukushima admite que demoró informar de fusiónThu, 25 Feb 2016 17:47:00 +0100.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. dijo que sus funcionarios no estaban al tanto del manual de emergencia de la compañía que definía una fusión como un daño que excedía 5% del combustible del reactor. En su lugar, TEPCO calificó la condición de los
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Japan utility admits it delayed report of Fukushima meltdownThu, 25 Feb 2016 17:47:00 +0100.

TOKYO — The operator of Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has acknowledged it failed for two months to announce that meltdowns had occurred in the cores of three of the reactors. Tokyo Electric Power said Thursday (Feb 25) its officia
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Japón: Fukushima admite que demoró informar de fusiónThu, 25 Feb 2016 17:36:00 +0100.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. dijo que sus funcionarios no estaban al tanto del manual de emergencia de la compañía que definía una fusión como un daño que excedía 5% del combustible del reactor. En su lugar, TEPCO calificó la condición de los
...(more)
Las medidas 'post Fukushima' cuestan 30 millones de euros a cada nucle ... Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:26:00 +0100.

EFE | Madrid | Actualizado el 25/02/2016 a las 17:16 horas Las medidas de seguridad 'post- Fukushima ' que están aplicando las nucleares españolas tendrán un coste final de unos 30 millones de euros para cada una de ellas, de los que más de
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),