M 4.7 Off-shore on 16 Feb 2016 23:06 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 1080764
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 26.3655 , 93.4149
Event Date: 16 Feb 2016 23:06 UTC
17 Feb 2016 04:36 Local
Exposed Population:
8491193 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2016 00:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Date-expired food sent for earthquake victims 2/20/2016 9:16:00 PM.

Dhading, February 20. Date expired food items were found among the relief materials sent for the earthquake victims of Dhading by the District Disaster Rescue Committee, Lalitpur. The relief materials, including food items, were brought
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Approaching earthquake alert takes over 12 seconds on apps 2/20/2016 7:13:00 PM.

TAIPEI -- Although earthquake notification apps have become a big hit among mobile device users after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Southern Taiwan Feb. 6, causing hundreds of casualties, such apps in fact have their limit because the a
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Most are satisfied with gov't quake rescue efforts: survey 2/20/2016 7:13:00 PM.

Taipei -- Approximately 86 percent of people in Taiwan are satisfied with the joint rescue efforts conducted by the central and local governments in the aftermath of the Feb. 6 earthquake in Southern Taiwan, according to the results of a su
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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 (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),