Earthquake hits Tokyo and eastern Japan

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">ArabiaWeather.com- The US Geological Survey confirmed that an earthquake measuring five degrees occurred east of Japan today, Sunday; 44 km northeast of Tokyo, at a depth of about 44 km. No damages were reported.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The earthquake hit buildings in Tokyo without the risk of a giant tsunami, and there were no reports of injuries or serious damage.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Japanese Radio and Television Corporation (NHK) said that the Tokai 2 nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011, is being examined to see if it was damaged after the quake, but nothing was found.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Japan is one of the most seismically active regions in the world, as it witnesses about a fifth of the world&#39;s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more, according to Reuters.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The strongest earthquake recorded in Japan measured 9.0 and occurred on the northeastern coast on March 11, 2011, triggering a giant tsunami that killed about 20,000 people and caused the world&#39;s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>