Magnitude 6.5 earthquake: Bonin Islands, Japan

On 25 October 2026 at 02:09 UTC a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck at a depth of 492 km. Location: Bonin Islands, Japan.

NOAA's tsunami warning centre issued a tsunami information statement for this earthquake. The USGS PAGER system rates the expected losses as green; the scale runs from green to red.

Updated 25 October 2026 · All times are UTC.

Key facts

Time

25 October 2026, 02:09 UTC

Magnitude

6.5 (mww)

Depth

492.4 km

Tsunami

information statement

Alert level

PAGER: green

Coordinates

27.80, 139.62

Source

USGS

What the simulator shows

At this depth and distance from the nearest towns the model finds no populated place with shaking above intensity V.

This is a simplified model, not a damage report. Real effects depend on soil, buildings, terrain and the details of the event.

Sources

• Official data: USGS
• NOAA: tsunami.gov
• GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): geonames.org