A 5.4 magnitude earthquake was registered off to the east of the Japanese capital of earthquake on early Tuesday, the country’s meteorological bureau said.
The epicenter of the earthquake was registered at the depth of some 100 kilometers (some 62 miles) in the Gulf of Japan with tremors echoing in the country’s capital of Tokyo.
There were no reports on casualties and destruction to the infrastructure as well as no tsunami alert was issued, the agency said.
Last year Japan was hit by a massive 9.0-magnitude quake which caused a tsunami, claiming almost 15,000 lives and triggering a number of explosions at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The tsunami caused a partial meltdown at three of the nuclear plant’s reactors. Radiation leaked into the atmosphere, soil and seawater, becoming the world's worst nuclear disaster after Chernobyl.
According to scientists, Japan will need at least 30 years to recover fully from the nuclear catastrophe.
