Japan: 6.1 magnitude earthquake shakes Tokyo and northeast without tsunami warning

An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 6.1 was felt this Monday in tokyo and the northeastern areas of Japanwithout the tremor triggering the tsunami warning.

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The quake struck at 5:09 p.m. local time (0809 GMT) 350 kilometers deep in the sea off the coast of Mie Prefecture, in the center of the archipelago, according to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency. (JMA).

The eastern and northeastern regions of the country were the ones that most felt the impact of the earthquake due to the plate where it originated.

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The tremor reached level 4 of the Japanese seismic scale (of 7 levels and focused on measuring agitation on the surface and potential damage) in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture (north of Tokyo) and in the towns of Namie and Futaba, home to the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

In the Tokyo metropolitan area, the tremor reached level 3.

The company that owns the plant, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), is checking whether there has been any anomaly as a result of the tremor.

The earthquake caused the temporary stoppage of some trains on the high-speed network in the affected areas, although service was restored around half an hour after the quake.

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The Japanese authorities did not issue a tsunami warning for this earthquake.

Japan sits on the so-called Ring of Fire, one of the most active seismic zones in the world, and suffers earthquakes with relative frequency, so its infrastructures are specially designed to withstand tremors.

Source: Elcomercio

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