M 5.7 in Japan on 26 Jun 2026 13:29 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 1548681
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Glide number: EQ-2026-000096-JPN
Depth: 50.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 35.5228 , 138.8566
Event Date: 26 Jun 2026 13:29 UTC
26 Jun 2026 22:29 Local
Exposed Population: 950 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 26 Jun 2026 13:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000t8fe Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),