M 4.6 in Nepal on 29 Jun 2016 09:10 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 1089035
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 9.07 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.5713 , 81.1828
Event Date: 29 Jun 2016 09:10 UTC
29 Jun 2016 14:55 Local
Exposed Population:
2453578 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jun 2016 10:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200067x7 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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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),