M 5.6 in Japan on 02 Mar 2026 10:39 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 1526991
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 25.2561 , 124.8849
Event Date: 02 Mar 2026 10:39 UTC
02 Mar 2026 18:39 Local
Exposed Population: 60 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2026 10:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000s1en 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),