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Join today<\/a><\/p>\n \n Already a member? A magnitude 7.0 earthquake<\/a> has struck deep beneath the Pacific Ocean<\/a> near Japan<\/a>‘s remote Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000km (620 miles) south of Tokyo<\/a>, with no threat of a tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency<\/a> said.<\/p>\n The preliminary magnitude was recorded at around 11.10am local time (2.10am GMT) on Sunday, in waters west of the island chain and at a depth of about 470km (290 miles), the agency said. <\/p>\n The quake measured 3 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, which runs from 0 to 7, on the islands of Chichijima and Hahajima, the two inhabited islands of the group. The Ogasawara Islands, also known as the Bonin Islands, are administered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.<\/p>\n Earlier, European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said that a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the Bonin Islands. <\/p>\n There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.<\/p>\n Despite the distance, the tremor was felt across a wide area of eastern and north-eastern Japan, Kyodo News reported, because seismic waves are believed to have travelled through the Pacific plate, one of the large slabs of the Earth’s crust.<\/p>\n The islands lie in the seismically active Izu-Bonin-Mariana region of the western Pacific, where the Pacific plate moves beneath the Philippine Sea plate.<\/p>\n Japan sits where four tectonic plates meet, and about 10 per cent of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or higher strike in or around the country. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 left 22,303 people dead or missing, including deaths from disaster-related causes. In July, an earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture in the southwest killed at least 30 people. <\/p>\n Deep earthquakes off the Ogasawara Islands can be felt far away. <\/p>\n A magnitude 7.9 quake at a depth of 664km in 2015 was felt across almost all of Japan and stopped elevators in Tokyo, though it killed no one. The government has warned there is a 70 to 80 per cent chance of a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake on the Nankai Trough, a subduction zone off the south coast, within 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-656715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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