TOKYO, Sept 27 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.3, struck Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, today, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
The temblor occurred at around 1:13 p.m. local time, with its epicentre at a latitude of 35.1 degrees north, and a longitude of 137.8 degrees east, and at a depth of 50 km.
The quake logged 4 in some parts of Shizuoka Prefecture, on the Japanese seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.
So far no tsunami warning has been issued.
