M 4.6 in Japan on 26 Jun 2025 23:56 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 1487629
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 70 Km
Lat/Lon: 36.5547 , 140.3887
Event Date: 26 Jun 2025 23:56 UTC
27 Jun 2025 08:56 Local
Exposed Population:
1.3 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 27 Jun 2025 00:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000q90k Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),