M 5.3 in Nepal on 15 Sep 2020 23:34 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 1235545
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8713 , 85.8877
Event Date: 15 Sep 2020 23:34 UTC
16 Sep 2020 05:19 Local
Exposed Population:
5690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2020 23:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nepal= 5.9; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bnsh Scaled population (vector) 6.72  
  C1 earthquake 4.73  
  C2 earthquake -9.39  
  Country Vulnerability 0.44  
  INFORM_normalised 1.1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 64 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

Brigada médica Henry Reeve cumple su 15 Aniversario en medio de una pa ... Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:06:00 +0200.

El Contingente Internacional de Médicos Especializados en Situaciones de Desastre y Graves Epidemias “Henry Reeve” cumple hoy su 15 Aniversario, en medio de una pandemia mundial, un contexto en el que ha significado un gran apoyo para el co
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Feel empowered, says women of Nepal's Gorkha districtFri, 18 Sep 2020 13:33:00 +0200.

Gorkha [Nepal], September 18 (ANI): Radha Ramtel, once a mason during the Nepal Housing Reconstruction Project in Gorkha district, now feels empowered as the project funded by the Indian Government and undertaken by the United Nations Devel
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Earthquake strikes Nepal, no casualties reportedThu, 17 Sep 2020 05:01:00 +0200.

An earthquake measuring 6 magnitude struck Nepal on Wednesday morning, the country's seismological centre said, and tremors caused by the quake were felt in the capital, Kathmandu. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre measured t
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Strong earthquake of 6 magnitude shakes KathmanduWed, 16 Sep 2020 19:33:00 +0200.

The epicentre of the earthquake was Ramche village in the district, 120 km east of Kathmandu. A strong earthquake of 6 magnitude shook Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and surrounding areas on Wednesday, forcing people to rush out of their houses.
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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),