M6.8 quake shakes northeastern Japan, no tsunami alert issued

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 shook northeastern Japan on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or abnormalities at nuclear plants and no tsunami warning was issued, authorities said.The quake occurred around 10:27 a.m., about 51 kilometers below the sea surface off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.It registered upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale of 7 in parts of Miyagi and lower 5 in areas including neighboring Fukushima and Iwate prefectures, which were all devastated by a massive quake and tsunam…READ FULL ARTICLE