Nepal: Earthquake: 2023/11/03

Period	2023/11/03
Country or District	Nepal
Event Type	Earthquake
Outline	On 3 November 2023 at 18:02 UTC a 5.6 M earthquake at a depth of 17.9 km struck Nepal, with epicentre in Jajarkot of Karnali province. Several aftershocks have occurred since. Tremors were felt across North India. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) 140 people have been killed and 140 injured.

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Report/Articles

NDRRMA 2023/11/12
Situation Report #6, Nepal Earthquake Response: Jajarkot

NDRRMA 2023/11/07
Situation Report #4, Nepal Earthquake Response: Jajarkot

NDRRMA 2023/11/06
Situation Report #3, Nepal Earthquake Response: Jajarkot

UNOCHA 2023/11/06
153 (Male: 70, Female: 83) people died and more than 338 (Male: 138, Female: 200) were injured as a result of the earthquake. As per the secondary data sources, 92% of the buildings in the highly impacted municipalities are constructed from stone masonry which has high fragility of damage.

UNOCHA 2023/11/04
Initial information indicates that some 133 people were killed across Karnali Province, including reportedly 95 people in Jajarkot and 38 people in Western Rukum. Several hundred more people have reportedly been injured. These figures are preliminary, and concerns remain that actual figures may be higher, especially as the earthquake struck at a time when most people were likely to have been at home or otherwise indoors.

Geographycal Data

International Charter 2023/11/04
Earthquake in Nepal

Sentinel Asia 2023/11/03
Earthquake in Nepal on 03 November, 2023

ECHO 2023/11/06
Nepal: 5.7 M Earthquake of 3 November 2023 - DG ECHO Daily Map, 06/11/2023

USGS 2023/11/03
M 5.7 - 46 km E of Dailekh, Nepal, Time: 2023-11-03 18:02:54 (UTC), Depth: 16.5 km depth