{"id":12189,"date":"2026-04-26T23:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/12189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:18:21","slug":"magnitude-6-2-quake-hits-japans-hokkaido-no-tsunami-warning-issued-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/12189\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude-6.2 quake hits Japan&#8217;s Hokkaido; no tsunami warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/natural-disasters\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natural disasters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Temblor registers upper 5 on Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Tokachi region<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260426N JMA\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Upper 5 is described as the level where people find it difficult to walk without holding on to something. (Photo by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>April 27, 2026 06:50 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on April 27, 2026 07:51 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">(Kyodo) &#8212; A quake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck Japan&#8217;s Hokkaido on Monday, with no tsunami warning issued, the country&#8217;s weather agency said.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">The 5:24 a.m. quake registered upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in the Tokachi region of the northern main island and occurred at a depth of about 83 kilometers, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">There were no immediate reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Upper 5 is described as the level at which people find it difficult to walk without holding on to something.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">No abnormalities were observed at the Tomari nuclear power plant, according to Hokkaido Electric Power Co.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">The quake came in the middle of a weeklong advisory by the weather agency warning of an increased risk of a powerful quake following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Aomori exactly a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Hokkaido is among the seven areas where caution has been advised.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">The earthquake&#8217;s magnitude was initially estimated to be 6.1 but was later revised up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natural disasters Temblor registers upper 5 on Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Tokachi region Upper 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10264,153,10265,8,410,10263,33,3470,4226,3278,5292],"class_list":{"0":"post-12189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-hits","9":"tag-hokkaido","10":"tag-issued","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-japans","13":"tag-magnitude-62","14":"tag-nihon","15":"tag-no","16":"tag-quake","17":"tag-tsunami","18":"tag-warning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}