M 5.7 in Nepal on 08 Nov 2022 20:27 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1345475
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Glide number: EQ-2022-000358-NPL
Depth: 18.082 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.2742 , 81.1486
Event Date: 08 Nov 2022 20:27 UTC
09 Nov 2022 02:12 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people in MMI
2 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 09 Nov 2022 16:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1.5 1.5
us7000incn Scaled population (raster) 2.76  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.1  
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Nepal - Earthquake (ECHO 09 Nov 2022)Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:20

  • An earthquake of 5.6 M (6.6 according to local authorities) at a depth of 16 km occurred in western Nepal on 9 November at 2.12 local time in the western part of Nepal. The epicentre was located in Doti District (Sudurpashchim Province) approximately 21 km east of Dipayal Silgadhi Municipality and tremors were felt all the way to New Delhi.
  • According  to the National Emergency Operations Centre, six people were killed and eight people were injured in Doti district. Several houses in the area have been damaged by the earthquake.
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 2,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking and up to 147,000 to strong shaking. Security forces (army and police) are mobilised for search and rescue operations. 
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),