Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 11th August. The Japan Meteorological Agency on Saturday said that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 on Friday struck Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa, south of Tokyo.
The temblor occurred at 7.57 p.m. local time, measuring lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7, said the JMA.
Media reports quoted JMA that at a depth of 10 km, the epicenter was located off the western Kanagawa prefecture at a latitude of 35.4 degrees north and a longitude of 139.2 degrees east.
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The tremor was strongly felt in Tokyo and Saitama prefecture, with no tsunami warning issued.
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