A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck northern Japan this Friday (December 12, 2025), triggering a tsunami warning, the local weather service reported, days after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in the same region left at least 50 injured.
Japan’s weather agency, which revised up its original estimate of magnitude 6.5, issued a warning of tsunami waves up to a meter high that could hit the northern coast of the Pacific.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) also said the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.7 and struck 130 kilometers from the city of Kuji (Iwate) on the main island of Honshu.
Broadcaster NHK said the intensity of the tremors was lower than those recorded in Monday night’s strongest quake, which tossed items from shelves, destroyed roads, shattered windows and triggered tsunami waves of up to 70 centimeters.
No anomalies in nuclear facilities
The Nuclear Regulation Authority reported Friday that there were no immediate signs of anomalies at nuclear facilities in the region.
After Monday’s quake, the JMA issued a rare special warning that another earthquake of similar or larger magnitude was possible later in the week.
The region is marked by the memory of the massive 9.0-magnitude underwater earthquake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that left about 18,500 people dead or missing.
Japan lies on four major tectonic plates on the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and is one of the most seismically active countries in the world.
The archipelago, home to around 125 million people, suffers around 1,500 earthquakes every year, most of them mild.
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mg (afp, reuters)
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