Overall Green Earthquake in Japan on 26 Apr 2026 20:23 UTC

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M 6.1 in Japan on 26 Apr 2026 20:23 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 1537604
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	81 Km
Lat/Lon:	42.6311 , 142.9615
Event Date:	26 Apr 2026 20:23 UTC 27 Apr 2026 05:23 Local
Exposed Population:	370 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at:	26 Apr 2026 20:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.5 (Japan)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000st1m	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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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