Heightened alert issued as heavy rain hits Japan’s Okinawa
Japan's weather agency on Sunday urged Okinawa residents to be on high alert for mudslides and other disasters as torrential rains are drenching the country's southernmost prefecture.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off Japan’s western Ogasawara Islands on Monday morning, the local weather agency said.
The temblor occurred at 5:02 a.m. local time, measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Ogasawara Village, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
The epicentre was located off western Ogasawara Islands at a depth of 530 km at a latitude of 27.1 degrees north and a longitude of 139.0 degrees east.
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With no tsunami threat from the earthquake, there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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