M 4.6 in Nepal on 22 Aug 2017 00:50 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 1119772
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 29.3931 , 81.1053
Event Date: 22 Aug 2017 00:50 UTC
22 Aug 2017 06:35 Local
Exposed Population:
3080000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Aug 2017 01:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.9 (Nepal)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Nepal= 5.9; India= 4.6; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000aah5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 373 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Christiana Figueres 'agradece' a Trump por retirada do Acordo de ParisSat, 26 Aug 2017 00:23:00 +0200.

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings said it faces another U.S. lawsuit over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, with the latest one demanding at least $5 billion in compensation. A total of 157 U.S. residents who were supporting Fukushima vi
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),