The temblors come less than a week after last Monday’s 7.7 earthquake off northern Iwate prefecture
No tsunami alert was issued, JMA said, and the US Geological Survey predicted that damage to property and threat to life was minimal, given the limited population in the region some 200km east of Sapporo.
But “in areas that experienced strong shaking, the danger of falling rocks and landslides has increased”, a JMA official told reporters.
Hours earlier, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred in the sea a few hundred kilometres south of Hokkaido.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
