M 5.5 in Japan on 01 Mar 2026 09:00 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 1526847
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 127.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.1153 , 130.4767
Event Date: 01 Mar 2026 09:00 UTC
01 Mar 2026 18:00 Local
Exposed Population: 1.3 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2026 09:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000s17q Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),