A magnitude 6 earthquake has shaken a large area of ​​eastern Japanwith its epicenter off the coast of Fukushima, without the tsunami warning being activated nor any damage resulting from it having been reported so far.

The earthquake took place at 12:16 local time this Thursday (3:26 GMT) and had its epicenter at 40 kilometers deep off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, in the east of the country, as reported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

The tremor reached level 4 on the Japanese seismic scale (7 levels and focused on measuring the agitation on the surface and potential damage) and the same level in the prefectures adjacent to Iwate and Miyagi.

The operating company of the damaged Fukushima plant, TEPCO, has indicated that it is reviewing whether there has been any some problem in it after the earthquakeas detailed by the state broadcaster NHK, while the JR East railway suspended operations of the Tohoku bullet train, which connects Tokyo with Sendai due to a power outage.

According to the Tohoku Electric Power company, no anomaly was detected in the nuclear power plant of Miyagi Ongawa nor in the radiation levels in the areas near it.

The earthquake in Japan comes after a strong earthquake hits Taiwan on the eve leaving near a dozens dead and hundreds injured and forcing the activation of the tsunami warning on the islands of the Okinwa archipelago, southwest of Japan.

Japan sits on the so-called Ring of Fire, one of the most active seismic zones in the worldand suffers earthquakes relatively frequently, so its infrastructure is specially designed to withstand tremors.