Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 05 Feb 2026 00:19 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 05 Feb 2026 00:19 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 1522952
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	57.4 Km
Lat/Lon:	35.561 , 140.4428
Event Date:	05 Feb 2026 00:19 UTC 05 Feb 2026 09:19 Local
Exposed Population:	36 million in MMI III
Inserted at:	05 Feb 2026 00:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000s6ix	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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