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A strong 6.2-magnitude quake struck off northern Japan today, US seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami alert was issued.
It hit at 7:21 am (local time) in waters 96 kilometres east of Miyako on the main island of Honshu at a depth of just 9.7 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake was followed by a 5.1-magnitude jolt roughly 30 minutes later, which hit 107 kilometres east of Miyako. It was measured at a depth of 37.9 kilometres, the USGS said.
The area, badly damaged by the major earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, is located roughly 500 kilometres north of Tokyo.
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