Tokyo: According to the country’s weather office, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture and other southwest regions on Thursday.

No life loss or heavy destruction has been reported.

According to the Xinhua news agency, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued tsunami alerts for Kochi, Miyazaki, Ehime, Oita, and Kagoshima.

The temblor occurred at 16:43 local time and measured lower than 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 off Miyazaki Prefecture, said the JMA.

The magnitude was revised to 7.1 from 6.9 later.

 

 

–IANS