Quake Strikes Off East Coast of Japan
An earthquake measuring 5.1 in magnitude struck near the east coast of Japan Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake, which had a depth of six kilometers, hit close to the coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island, at 4:27 am (19:27 GMT) around 91 kilometers from Tokyo.
No tsunami alert was issued.
On March 11 a 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused a devastating tsunami which left about 22,000 people dead or missing and triggered an atomic crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the northeast of the country.
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