M 5.9 in Mongolia on 26 Apr 2026 04:23 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 1537489
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 46.7887 , 92.9681
Event Date: 26 Apr 2026 04:23 UTC
26 Apr 2026 11:23 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2026 04:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
5.1 (Mongolia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ssxt Scaled population (raster) 1.15  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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

Urgent: 5.9-magnitude quake hits Mongolia -- GFZ 4/26/2026 8:35:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Mongolia on Sunday afternoon, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 46.88 de
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Urgent: 5.9-magnitude quake hits Mongolia -- GFZ 4/26/2026 8:34:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Mongolia on Sunday afternoon, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 46.88 de
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Small magnitude 3.0 earthquake 24 km northeast of Oslo, Norway 4/26/2026 7:51:00 AM.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the EU''s monitoring body for earthquakes, registered the seismic event. An earthquake was felt across large parts of Eastern Norway on Sunday morning, with reports of strong shaking i
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Earthquake of Magnitude 6.0 Strikes Mongolia Reports 4/26/2026 6:31:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 26 (RIA Novosti) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred in Mongolia on Sunday, China Central Television reported, citing the Chinese Earthquake Networks Center. The quake''s focus lay at a depth of 15 kilometers (9???.3 mi
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),