Magnitude 5.2 earthquake shakes eastern Japan123RF Japan is one of the world's most seismically active areas. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 shook eastern Japan on Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. Those events triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, a quarter of a century earlier. On March 11, 2011, the northeast coast was struck by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the strongest on record in Japan, and a massive tsunami. Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas.

Source: Stuff July 19, 2016 04:07 UTC