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Urgent: M5.3 quake jolts Japan's Ibaraki, no tsunami warning issued

Xinhua, July 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake rocked Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture area just north of the country's capital of Tokyo late Wednesday.

Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said the quake, which struck at 11:47 local time, measured lower 5 on Japan's seismic scale that peaks at 7, and was centered just north of the capital in neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture.

According to the weather agency, a tsunami advisory has not been issued.

The temblor struck at a latitude of 36.4 degrees north and a longitude of 140.6 degrees east and at a depth of 50 km, JMA said.

There have been no immediate reports of accident or injury as the result of the quake.

All nuclear reactors are showing no signs of abnormalities, the nuclear watchdog here has said. Endit