M 6.7 in Japan on 12 Dec 2025 02:44 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 1514684
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 10.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 40.9175 , 142.7451
Event Date: 12 Dec 2025 02:44 UTC
12 Dec 2025 12:44 Local
Exposed Population: 160 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2025 03:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
us6000ruc4 Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.23m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.23m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Japan - Earthquakes (ECHO 17 Dec 2025)Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:53

  • A new strong earthquake of 6.7 M (revised to 6.9 M, according to the Japanese authorities) occurred at a depth of 10.7 km off the eastern coast of northern Honshu island, northern Japan on 12 December at 2:44 UTC (12:44 local time). The epicentre was located in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, approximately 115 km east of the city of Rokkasho, Aomori prefecture, in the same area as the previous 7.6 M earthquake that occurred on 8 December. The event was followed by two aftershocks of 5.5 M and 4.7 M in the area.
  • For the main event, USGS PAGER estimates up to 127,000 people were exposed to moderate shaking. Tsunami advisories were issued along the eastern coasts of Hokkaido and Aomori prefectures soon after the main event and were lifted early in the morning (local time) of 12 December. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported observed tsunami waves up to 20 cm across both the aforementioned prefectures.
  • Japanese authorities and media reports, as of 12 December, state that evacuation orders were issued for around 6,000 people across 180 municipalities throughout Hokkaido and Aomori prefectures.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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.
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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 (90), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),