TOKYO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, late Wednesday night, the country's weather agency said, adding no tsunami warning was issued.
The temblor occurred at 11:52 p.m. local time off Aomori's Pacific coast at a depth of 30 km, measuring 4 on Japan's seismic scale of 7 in Gonohe Town in Aomori, said the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
The epicenter was located at a latitude of 40.9 degrees north and a longitude of 142.8 degrees east.
On late Monday night, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the same region, measuring upper 6 on Japan's seismic scale of 7 in parts of Aomori, prompting the JMA to issue tsunami warnings for Iwate Prefecture and parts of Hokkaido and Aomori prefectures. ■
