Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 28 Jul 2026 08:08 UTC

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M 5.6 in Japan on 28 Jul 2026 08:08 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 1554567
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	32.3529 , 130.5868
Event Date:	28 Jul 2026 08:08 UTC 28 Jul 2026 17:08 Local
Exposed Population:	40 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at:	28 Jul 2026 08:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000tgbm	Scaled population (raster)	0.6
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.57

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Latest media headlines

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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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