Japan: magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes off Ibaraki, felt in Tokyo
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Matin
Illustrative image · Florian Grewe · Pexels · Licence PexelsA magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan on Monday and was felt as far as Tokyo, with no tsunami warning or damage reported. The tremor occurred at 13:52 local time at a depth of about 10 km, a day after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Shizuoka injured at least 24 people, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
A preliminary magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off Ibaraki Prefecture on Japan's east coast on Monday, with tremors felt as far as Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) announced. The earthquake occurred at around 13:52 local time, at a depth of about 10 kilometres, with its epicentre located at 36.2 degrees north latitude and 142.2 degrees east longitude, according to the same source.
No tsunami warning was issued and no material damage or casualties were immediately reported. The tremor came a day after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Shizuoka Prefecture, about 200 kilometres west of Tokyo, which injured at least 24 people.
The archipelago, home to about 125 million people, records an average of nearly 1,500 tremors a year, or about 18% of earthquakes recorded worldwide. This new earthquake follows the magnitude 6.1 earthquake off Tokyo, which occurred on 6 November, and the Shizuoka earthquake the previous day, which injured dozens of people.
