M 5.2 in Nepal on 05 Feb 2016 16:20 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 1080045
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 25.95 Km
Lat/Lon: 27.8396 , 85.2486
Event Date: 05 Feb 2016 16:20 UTC
05 Feb 2016 22:05 Local
Exposed Population:
7800573 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2016 16:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.6 0.6
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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Latest media headlines

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Issues of relocation plan 2/8/2016 4:38:00 AM.

A monkey resolves to build a safe house on the day of heavy rain but followed by sunny day it forgets, always destined to be bitten by downpour. The government task for relocating the settlements at high risk in the earthquake affected area
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),