Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude jolts southern Japan

  10 May 2019    Read: 1511
Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude jolts southern Japan

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 hit off the coast of southern Japan on Friday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage, Reuters reports. 

The quake struck at 8.48 a.m. local time (2348 GMT Thursday), with its epicenter off the coast of Miyazaki prefecture at a depth of 20 km (12 miles), the agency said.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) put the magnitude of the quake at 6.4.


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