Tag: No Tsunami

Tokyo: An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale struck Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. No tsunami warning was issued, Xinhua reported. The temblor has an epicentre at a latitude of 42.6 degrees north and a longitude of 142.0 degrees east […]

Caracas: An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale has jolted Venezuela’s northeast coast, with no immediate reports of casualties. The Venezuelan Seismological Research Foundation (Funvisis) said the quake occurred on Tuesday evening at 5:31 p.m., with the epicentre located 19 km southeast of the town of Yaguaraparo, in Sucre state, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]