INA- sources
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 hit the east of Japan on Thursday morning, according to the country's meteorological agency.
No tsunami warning was issued in the aftermath.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) similarly recorded a mid-sized quake, putting the magnitude at 5.2 at first, roughly 4 kilometers east of Kasukabe — a city of roughly 230,000 people.
Japan's meteorological agency reported the quake's depth at 50 kilometers (roughly 30 miles), and said its epicenter was in the southwest of Ibaraki prefecture.
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