A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Saturday without causing a tsunami risk, Japanese authorities and the American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) said.
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The earthquake took place at 10:27 am local (01:27 GMT) at a depth of 47 kilometers in the Pacific, off Ishinomaki, in Miyagi Prefecture, not far from the epicenter of the 2011 earthquake that triggered a major tsunami, killing over 18,000 people.
The USGS and the Japanese Meteorological Agency, however, assured that there was no risk of a tsunami following the earthquake, which produced strong tremors along parts of the eastern coast and was also felt. in Tokyo.
There was no damage reported immediately, according to NHK public television.
Japan sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches across Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin. It has strict building standards so that its buildings are able to withstand strong shaking.