Magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes part of southwestern Japan but appears to cause no damage.
MIYAZAKI, Japan — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit near Miyazaki in southwestern Japan.
The agency says the earthquake struck at 8:48 a.m. Friday and had an epicenter 39 kilometers southeast of Miyazaki, a city of about 400,000. The earthquake had a depth of 23 kilometers The Japan Times reports that Kyushu Electric Power Co. says no abnormalities were reported at the nearby Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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