The quake produced shaking across a large swath of the northeastern coast and was also felt in Tokyo, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake hit at a depth of 368 kilometres (228 miles) in the Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea in Korea.
Japan's meteorological agency said there was no tsunami risk following the jolt.
Japan sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
Source: Agence France-Presse
Comment: Considering our changing atmosphere and the surge in strange sky phenomena, it's notable that there have been a number of plane crashes recently, in Russia in particular, which leads one to wonder whether at least some of those incidents could also have had some weather-related cause. As documented in a 2015 SOTT report The sky's the limit? Aircraft crashes and accidents for June, this trend does appear to have been around for at least a decade:
- A military training jet crashed in a Texas suburb, 'heavily' damaging 2 homes (19th September 2021)
- Siberian passenger plane crash kills 4 - Czech-built L-410 aircraft reportedly landed in Taiga & 'caught fire' (12th September 2021)
- ANOTHER An-28 passenger plane goes missing in Russia, crashed plane is later found with all people alive (16th July 2021)
- Plane crashes in Russia's far east, all 28 people on board including local government officials dead (6th July 2021)
- Philippine military's worst air disaster kills 50, wounds 49 (4th July 2021)
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