Moderate earthquake strikes off Japan coast: USGS

A moderate 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu today, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

A moderate 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu today, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

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The quake hit at 03:07 am IST with an epicentre 44 kilometres east-northeast of the city of Mito and 142 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, the US Geological Survey said.

It centred at a depth of about 41 kilometres beneath the sea floor.

No tsunami warning was issued.

Around 20 per cent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan.