6.2-magnitude quake jolts Japan's Hokkaido; no tsunami warning issued

TOKYO, June 11 (Bernama-Xinhua):An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck parts of Japan's northern prefecture of Hokkaido on Sunday.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor occurred at 6.55 pm local time at a depth of 140 km, measuring lower 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.