M 4.6 in Japan on 30 Nov 2025 17:25 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 1512681
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 53.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 38.1993 , 141.8636
Event Date: 30 Nov 2025 17:25 UTC
01 Dec 2025 02:25 Local
Exposed Population:
620 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 30 Nov 2025 18:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rern 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, 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)

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