M 6 in Japan on 31 Dec 2025 14:26 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 1517494
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 19.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.1119 , 142.8885
Event Date: 31 Dec 2025 14:26 UTC
01 Jan 2026 00:26 Local
Exposed Population: 390 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 31 Dec 2025 14:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rlq3 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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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),