M5.2 quake hits Hokkaido in northern Japan
10:22, 5 October 2018
SAPPORO. KAZINFORM - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 jolted Hokkaido on Friday morning, just a month after a powerful quake rocked Japan's northernmost main island, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, Kyodo reports.
The 8:58 a.m. temblor which occurred in a southern part of the island at a depth of around 31 kilometers registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in the Iburi and Hidaka regions, the agency said.
No tsunami warning was issued after the quake. Hokkaido Electric Power Co. said it found no abnormality at its nuclear and coal-fired power plants in the prefecture.