M 5.4 in Nepal on 18 Dec 2015 22:16 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 1076278
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 15.53 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.4391 , 81.571
Event Date: 18 Dec 2015 22:16 UTC
19 Dec 2015 04:01 Local
Exposed Population:
2083042 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2015 22:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Temblor victims get warm clothes 12/22/2015 8:40:00 PM.

HETAUDA: Centre for Community Development Nepal distributed warm clothes to 300 families of earthquake victims in Daman of Thaha Municipality in Makawanpur on Tuesday. Each family received clothes worth Rs 12,000. According to CCDN programm
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Nepal: Cash distributions keep Nepal’s earthquake survivors warm throu.. 12/22/2015 2:55:00 PM.

Silver flashes off the new sheets of corrugated iron that roof almost every building around Lachyang village, in a mountainous part of Nuwakot district, five hours’ drive from Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. One of these houses belongs to Januk
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Major Natural Disasters in 2015 12/22/2015 11:01:00 AM.

Nepalese rescue team carry on a stretcher the body of a victim recovered from the debris of a building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bhaktapur, near Kathmandu, Nepal, April 26, 2015. A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal,
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Nepal: Inter-Agency Common Feedback Project Nepal Earthquake 2015 - Co.. 12/21/2015 10:48:00 AM.

CONTENTS. Do you have any health problem? 1 Are your main problems being addressed? 2 Are you satisfied with what government is doing for you after the earthquake? 3 Do you have information you need to get relief and support? 4 Are you sati
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Exposed population

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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),