6.0-Magnitude Quake Strikes Off Japan’s Hachijojima Island, No Tsunami Warning Issued

6.0-Magnitude Quake Strikes Off Japan’s Hachijojima Island, No Tsunami Warning Issued

TOKYO, Japan, July 30 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale, today (Tuesday), struck off the east coast of Hachijojima Island of Tokyo Prefecture in Japan, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA).

The temblor occurred at 05:37 a.m. local time, with its epicentre at a latitude of 32.9 degrees north and a longitude of 140.9 degrees east, and at a depth of 60 km.

The quake logged 3, in some parts of Tokyo Prefecture, on the Japanese seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.

So far no tsunami warning has been issued.– NNN-NHK

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