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5.8-magnitude quake jolts Japan, no tsunami warning issued

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Utsunomiya city in Japan's Tochigi prefecture on Thursday.

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According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor struck at 5.37 p.m. (local time), with its epicentre at a latitude of 32.1 degrees north and a longitude of 138.5 degrees east, and at a depth of 380 km, reports Xinhua news agency. 

The quake logged 3 in some parts of Tokyo prefecture on the Japanese seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7. 

So far no tsunami warning has been issued.

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