Magnitude 5.3 quake shakes eastern Japan, no tsunami warning


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Oct 2016

TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 shook eastern Japan on Thursday but there were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami warning was not issued.

The epicentre of the earthquake, which occurred at 11:50 a.m. (0250 GMT), was in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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