A 5.4-magnitude earthquake strikes the southeastern part of the Japanese island of Honshu

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Ani | Update date: Dec 03, 2021 at 8:09 a.m. EDT

Tokyo [Japan]An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 hit the southeastern part of Honshu Island, Japan’s largest island, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday.

The epicenter was in Wakayama Prefecture, at a depth of 20 kilometers (more than 12 miles). The quake was felt in 23 prefectures, including those on the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, and there were no reports of casualties or damage from the quake. No tsunami alert has been declared, and Japan is located in a seismically active region known as the Ring of Fire and regularly experiences strong earthquakes. The 2011 earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale and the following tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster (ANI/Sputnik)

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