M 4.9 in Nepal on 02 Jul 2017 01:58 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 1116080
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.2357 , 86.1117
Event Date: 02 Jul 2017 01:58 UTC
02 Jul 2017 07:43 Local
Exposed Population:
13550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jul 2017 02:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nepal= 5.9; India= 4.6; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.4 0.4
us100095t8 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),