M 5.9 in Japan on 04 Oct 2025 15:21 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 1503467
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 43.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.4317 , 141.6389
Event Date: 04 Oct 2025 15:21 UTC
05 Oct 2025 00:21 Local
Exposed Population: 2 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2025 21:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000resn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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)

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