The latest information from USGS shows that the earthquake has a depth of 54 kilometers (34 miles). CNN teams in Tokyo felt the vibration.
A tsunami warning was issued earlier Saturday, but has now been downgraded to a “tsunami prediction” of small sea level changes, a Japanese government website showed. The US tsunami warning system says there is no tsunami warning, advisory, surveillance, or threat in connection with the Japan earthquake.
Firefighters in the jurisdiction of Miyagi, where Ishinomaki is located, have reported no damage from the earthquake, and nuclear reactors in eastern and northeastern Japan are safe, according to the Japan Times, an English-language Japanese newspaper.
Japan experienced a deadly earthquake ten years ago that triggered the country’s worst nuclear disaster. More than 20,000 people died or were missing and a tsunami with 30 feet (30 feet) waves damaged several nuclear reactors in the area.
More than 100,000 people were evacuated and authorities have spent the past 10 years cleaning up the area – a massive effort that experts say will take decades.
A powerful earthquake that hit Japan last month was an aftershock of the 2011 event, according to the National Meteorological Agency.