News M5.3 earthquake strikes Kanagawa

At around 7:57 p.m., an earthquake hit Kanagawa Prefecture with a seismic intensity of lower five on the Japanese scale from 0 to 7. The epicentre was in the western part of Kanagawa Prefecture, and the depth was 10 kilometres. The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated at 5.3. There is no tsunami threat from the quake.

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Although damage to the areas closest to the epicentre was not immediately clear, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the government had not received any reports of major damage, speaking at his Tokyo office shortly after the quake. The quake's epicentre was in the Kanagawa prefecture south next to the capital, at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. Kanagawa does not lie within the western zone along the Pacific coast known as the Nankai Trough, specified in Thursday's advisory on a megaquake with magnitude 8 or higher. No tsunami alert was issued after the government sent strong tremor warnings for residents in Tokyo and the prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama, Yamanashi and Shizuoka.

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