An earthquake with an initial magnitude of 6.4 has struck southern Japan on Wednesday, April 17, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The agency had said that the central point of the earthquake had been the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, and that no tsunami warning had been issued.
The JMA had said that the Ehime and Kochi prefectures were hit by the earthquake with an intensity of 6 on Japan’s 1-7 scale.
Meanwhile, the local media have reported no major destruction has so far.
Earthquakes are mo strange occurrence in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas. Japan accounts for around one-fifth of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.
Back in March 11, 2011, the northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the strongest quake so far to have happened in Japan, and a massive tsunami.
Those events triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl happened a quarter of a century earlier.
