There are no reports about victims and damages caused by the quake. No tsunami alert has been issued.
The tremors were measured at up to three of the Japanese seven-point seismic intensity scale.
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The day earlier the eastern Japanese Ibaraki prefecture was hit by a 5.0-magnitude earthquake.
Japan is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes. The 2011 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the following tsunami killed over 15,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.