5.0-magnitude quake strikes off Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, no tsunami warning issued

Tokyo : An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck off Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

The temblor occurred at around 4:22 p.m. local time at a depth of 50 km, with its epicenter at a latitude of 37.7 degrees north and a longitude of 141.6 degrees east.

The quake logged 3 in some parts of Fukushima Prefecture on the Japanese seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.
So far no tsunami warning has been issued.

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