M 4.9 in Japan on 26 Feb 2026 18:51 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 1526393
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.1854 , 125.0183
Event Date: 26 Feb 2026 18:51 UTC
27 Feb 2026 02:51 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2026 19:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000s0jt 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, 2026. 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

Court rejects residents'' bid to halt Ikata reactor over safety concer.. 2/26/2026 9:38:00 PM.

A district court on Thursday rejected a request by residents of a nearby prefecture to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor at the Ikata power plant in western Japan due to safety concerns related to earthquake risks and the potential fo
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Snake-like robot unveiled for Fukushima debris removal 2/26/2026 11:55:00 AM.

TOKYO: A 22m robot arm will help remove a third sample of radioactive debris from inside Japan''s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said on Thursday (Feb 26), as it unveiled the snake-like device. Dangerously high radiation lev
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Japan unveils 72-foot robot arm to remove nuclear debris at Fukushima .. 2/26/2026 11:14:00 AM.

The reveal marks a fresh step in Japan’s long-term cleanup effort nearly 15 years after the March 2011 nuclear disaster. The utility said it will begin installing the device next month. A third trial retrieval of nuclear fuel debris from th
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Messina, cosa significa costruire un Ponte su una faglia attiva? 2/26/2026 5:43:00 AM.

Con un esperto dell’Ingv, l’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia abbiamo chiarito alcuni aspetti di un recente studio, uscito sulla rivista internazionale Tectonophysics e pubblicato lo scorso novembre, di cui proprio l''Ingv è to
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),