Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 01 Mar 2026 09:00 UTC

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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

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),

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