A preliminary magnitude-6.7 earthquake has struck Japan’s northeast, prompting a tsunami advisory from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
The quake occurred on Friday off the coast of Aomori prefecture at 11:44am local time (02:44 GMT) and was measured at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the JMA said.
The temblor follows a larger magnitude-7.5 earthquake that hit the same region days earlier. After Monday’s quake, the government warned residents across a wide area—from Hokkaido in the north to Chiba, east of Tokyo—to be on alert for an increased possibility of another powerful earthquake within a week.
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