While local media broadcast pictures of shaking buildings, the weather agency said that no tsunami warning had been issued following the quake, which registered level 4 on Japan`s seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.
As of 12:00 p.m there had been no reports of injury or damage to buildings or other infrastructure, or disruption to transportation networks.
Mie Prefecture has some 1,000 km of Pacific coastline and while commonly regarded as being in Kansai, is also in the Tokai region of Japan.
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