Early this Thursday morning, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck remote islands in eastern Japan, prompting tsunami warnings.
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that the earthquake occurred at 11:00 AM local time (02:00 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometers.
The agency issued a tsunami warning, indicating a one-meter-high tsunami in the Izu Islands today, while a tsunami of up to 20 centimeters was forecast for Japan’s Pacific coast and the Ogasawara Islands.
Residents have been advised to move away from the coast. No immediate reports of damage have been received.
The earthquake’s epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean about 550 kilometers south of Tokyo.
Japan is one of the most seismically active countries in the world.
