Large boulders sit at the back of a house where a woman was trapped after a landslide was triggered by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the area the day before, in the city of Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture on May 6, 2023. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck Japan's southern Chiba prefecture on May 11, 2023, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (PHOTO / AFP)
TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck Japan's southern Chiba prefecture on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
According to the weather agency, the quake occurred in southern Chiba prefecture at 4:16 am local time at a depth of 40 km, measuring upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7.
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The temblor's epicenter was located at a latitude of 35.2 degrees north and a longitude of 140.2 degrees east.
The quake was felt in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, and no tsunami warning has been issued.