5.0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN


Its only a couple of days into the New Year and an earthquake with a primer greatness of 5.0 has struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture in the central part of Southwestern Kyushu Island.

There were no prompt reports of real harm or wounds because of the inland quake and no tidal wave cautioning issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). As per the JMA, the earthquake, which happened at 6.10 p.m. nearby time has its epicenter at a scope of 33.0 degrees north and a longitude of 130.6 degrees east.

The quake started at a profundity of 10 km, the JMA additionally stated, including that the incredible quake logged bring down 6 on the Japanese seismic power scale and topped at 7 in a few regions of Kumamoto Prefecture.

In adjacent regions of Fukuoka, the shake enrolled 4 on Japan's seismic scale and 3 in the encompassing prefectures of Saga, Nagasaki, Oita and Miyazaki. A Shinkansen projectile train in the district was compelled to make a crisis stop.

Japan's atomic guard dog did not issue any notice about inconsistencies or variations from the norm at the Sendai or Genkai atomic power plants situated in Kyushu.

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