M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

EMSC Global reports M5.2 near OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN, with a 21.5 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-14T08:04:20.394Z

The event began at Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:33:02 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.2, 21.5 km catalog depth, and coordinates 37.175, 142.294.

The catalog location label is OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

EMSC Global has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.