Quake of magnitude 5.0 hits Tokyo and eastern Japan, no major damage

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo, officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas, which accounts for a fifth of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger.

Japan’s strongest quake on record was one of magnitude 9 that struck the northeast coast on March 11, 2011, unleashing a massive tsunami and killing nearly 20,000 people, besides setting off the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.