A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Ishikawa Prefecture on Japan’s west coast at 2:42 p.m. local time, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday. There is no threat of a tsunami, it said.
(Bloomberg) — A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Ishikawa Prefecture on Japan’s west coast at 2:42 p.m. local time, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday. There is no threat of a tsunami, it said.
Bullet train operations between Nagano and Kanazawa stations halted shortly after the tremors began, West Japan Railway Co. said. No irregularities were found at Hokuriku Electric Power Co.’s Shika nuclear power plant or Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tsuruga nuclear power plant, an official at the Japan Nuclear Regulation Authority said.
The quake, which had a depth of 10 kilometers, had a shaking intensity of as much as an upper 6 on Japan’s earthquake scale, according to the meteorological agency.
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