M 4.7 in Nepal on 24 Feb 2016 09:22 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 1081248
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8205 , 85.7593
Event Date: 24 Feb 2016 09:22 UTC
24 Feb 2016 15:07 Local
Exposed Population:
6306486 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2016 09:42 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 574 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Los relatos de fantasmas en la zona devastada por el tsunami de 2011 q ... Sun, 28 Feb 2016 09:04:00 +0100.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Compartir Estatua budista dedicada a las víctimas del tsunami. A pocos días del quinto aniversario del terremoto de magnitud 9 seguido de un tsunami en Japón, han vuelto a surgir los relatos de los poblador
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¿El fin del alquiler de úteros en el extranjero?Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:56:00 +0100.

El comercio mundial de niños nacidos por alquiler de úteros está siendo limitado lentamente. La India, Nepal, Tailandia y México han introducido medidas que limitarán o impedirán que los extranjeros contraten nativas como madres de alquiler
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Damaged daily items displayed to symbolize ferocity of 2011 disasterSun, 28 Feb 2016 08:27:00 +0100.

KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Public museums are displaying damaged household items and other “relics” from the 2011 Tohoku disaster as reminders of the preciousness and fragility of everyday life. The Rias Ark Museum of Art in Kesennuma an
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National › 7% of public housing units for disaster victims unoccupied: ... Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:52:00 +0100.

SENDAI. About 7% of public housing units built in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures for people whose homes were destroyed by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami were unoccupied as of late January, as many people have built new houses on 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),