TOKYO, Oct. 21 (UPI) — Residents of Fukushima prefecture said they felt “tremors” after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit near the coast of Japan at 3:04 p.m. Wednesday.
The quake, which took place off the northeast coast of Japan, did not trigger a tsunami warning, but residents of 10 other prefectures said they felt tremors, RT reported.
The epicenter of the earthquake could be traced to an area near the coast of Fukushima, at a depth of more than 18 miles.
Japan Today said no injuries have been reported, and that the quake had an intensity of 4 in Fukushima, Miyagi, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures. It also registered a 2 in Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa and Tokyo.
Japan’s state-owned utility TEPCO said there have been no problems reported at the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility. Japan’s commercial reactors were shut down in May 2012, more than a year after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Fukushima on March 11, 2011, causing the world’s biggest nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.
