A 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolts Japan's Ogasawara Islands

FILE PHOTO: Ogasawara Islands, dubbed "the Galapagos of the East" for their unique ecosystem with various indigenous species, are designated as a Unesco natural World Heritage site. - The Japan News via AP Images/picture alliance

TOKYO: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 on Sunday (Oct 25) struck waters near the Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean, south of Tokyo, with no tsunami warnings issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

The temblor occurred at around 11:10 a.m. local time at a depth of around 470 km in the waters west of the Ogasawara Archipelago, measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Chichijima and Hahajima islands, said the weather agency.

The quake's epicentre was located at a latitude of 28.0 degrees north and a longitude of 139.9 degrees east.

There was no threat of a tsunami, the JMA added. - Xinhua