M 4.6 in Japan on 22 Jun 2026 22:20 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 1548015
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 24.7817 , 125.4161
Event Date: 22 Jun 2026 22:20 UTC
23 Jun 2026 07:20 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2026 00:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000t7hp 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

Building back better... (2) 6/22/2026 10:13:00 PM.

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About parameter of the characteristic time scale in hereditary models .. 6/22/2026 4:08:00 PM.

P. P. Firstov and E. O. Makarov, Dynamics of subsurface radon in Kamchatka and strong earthquakes, Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, (2018). V. I. Ulomov, A. I. Zaharova, and N. V. Ulomova, “The Tashkent ear
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Il catastrofico terremoto di Tohoku-Oki che ha colpito il Giappone nel 2011 è stato così forte da provocare uno “spostamento” dell’intero paese, in alcune zone fino a cinque o sei millimetri, secondo una nuova ricerca. Questa "osservazione
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),