Key points
- Quake shakes some buildings in Taiwan’s capital Taipei
- There were no immediate reports of damage
- Last month, a magnitude 8.8 quake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula
ISLAMABAD: An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck Japan’s southwestern Ryukyu islands on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck 128 kilometers off Taiwan’s northeastern coast on Thursday, the island’s Central Weather Administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.
Depth of 88.1 km
The quake, which shook some buildings in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, had a depth of 88.1 km, according to Reuters.
Earlier on July 30, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, damaging buildings and generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet) that prompted warnings and evacuations stretching across the Pacific Ocean.
Several people were injured in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan’s eastern seaboard – devastated by a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 2011 – was ordered to evacuate, according to Reuters.
Live footage on Japanese television had showed people evacuating by car or on foot to higher ground, including the northern island of Hokkaido, where the first wave, measuring 30 centimetres (one foot) was observed.
