5.9-magnitude quake jolts Japan's Aomori, confirms JMA

The quake’s epicentre was located off Aomori at a latitude of 41.2 degrees north and a longitude of 142.9 degrees east. - PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM USGS

TOKYO (Xinhua): An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck parts of Japan's Aomori prefecture in the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu, the country's weather agency said on Friday.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor occurred at 09:14 a.m. local time (0014 GMT) at a depth of 20 km, measuring level 4 on Japan's seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.