A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked the Izu-Ogasawara Islands off Japan’s southeastern coast on Monday.
According to US Geological Survey, the magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit the Izu-Ogasawara Islands, south of the capital Tokyo, at round 4:49 a.m. GMT.
The earthquake originated at an estimated depth of 409.1 kilometers (254.2 miles).
The islands are positioned some 1,000 kilometers (621.3 miles) south of the capital.
Earlier Monday, an undersea earthquake shook a part of western Indonesia however there have been no rapid stories of significant injury or casualties.
The magnitude 6.2 earthquake was centered 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Singkil, a coastal district in Aceh province at a depth of 37 kilometers (23 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey mentioned.
No tsunami alert was issued by Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency.
Indonesia, an unlimited archipelago of greater than 270 million individuals, is steadily hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault strains within the Pacific Basin.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Nov. 21 killed at the very least 331 individuals and injured almost 600 in West Java’s Cianjur metropolis. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed about 4,340 individuals.
In 2004, a particularly highly effective Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed greater than 230,000 individuals in a dozen nations, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
