M 5 in Japan on 28 Jul 2025 03:10 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 1492340
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 61.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 42.3744 , 143.0485
Event Date: 28 Jul 2025 03:10 UTC
28 Jul 2025 12:10 Local
Exposed Population:
350 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Jul 2025 03:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qvjx 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.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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The Vietnamese communities in areas affected by the recent earthquake with tsunami warnings in eastern Russia are currently safe, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang stated at a regular press briefing on July 31. In
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Unmanned aerial vehicle could advance earthquake prediction 8/1/2025 2:54:00 AM.

(Web Desk) - Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can make high-precision, real-time seafloor measurements and communicate them to satellites to provide early warnings for earthquakes
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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),