Earthquake jolts southern Japan’s Ehime, Kochi prefectures

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The epicentre is 18km west of Uwajima, in a channel that separates Kyushu and Shikoku islands.

Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime prefecture , where one reactor is in operation, reported no irregularities after the quake.

The epicentre was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the agency said. Mr Hayashi also warned of a chance of other earthquakes with lower six on the Japanese seismic scale.Japan accounts for about one-fifth of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

 

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