Overall Green Earthquake alert in Nepal on 24 Feb 2016 09:22 UTC

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M 4.7 in Nepal on 24 Feb 2016 09:22 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 1081248
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	27.8205 , 85.7593
Event Date:	24 Feb 2016 09:22 UTC 24 Feb 2016 15:07 Local
Exposed Population:	6306486 people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Feb 2016 09:42 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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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),

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