According to Kyodo News, which cited the weather agency, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, was struck by an earthquake on Saturday with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Ritcher Scale. At 10:27 p.m., the earthquake that mostly struck the eastern part of Hokkaido registered a lower 5 on the country's seismic intensity scale of 7, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency.
No tsunami had been declared as a result of the quake. There were no immediate reports of significant property damage or injuries. According to the Kyodo agency, the quake, which occurred at a depth of 60 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean off Kushiro, also shook a larger region that included eastern and northeastern Japan.
The National Center for Seismology (NCS) reported earlier on Friday that an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred north of Halmahera, Indonesia. The earthquake, which originated at a depth of 99 kilometers, was felt at 01:32:47 IST, according to the NSC.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on February 24, 2023, at 01:32:47 IST, Longitude: 3.28 & Long: 128.36, Depth: 99 Km, Place: Indonesia, north of Halmahera," NCS tweeted. So far, no injuries have been reported.
Anadolu Agency, citing Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay, reported that the two earthquakes that struck Turkey's southernmost Hatay province on Monday, just two weeks after major quakes hit the region, left at least eight people injured earlier this week.
On February 6, massive quakes struck Hatay for the first time, followed by two more on Tuesday night. The first magnitude-6.4 quake struck on Tuesday in the Defne district.
At 4:17 a.m. local time on February 6, a 7.7 earthquake struck Turkey's southern province of Kahramanmaras, followed by a 7.6 earthquake at 1:24 p.m. local time in the same province.
Over 43,000 people have died in the most recent earthquakes, and tens of thousands of people have been left homeless across ten provinces in southern Turkey.
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