Minor quake near Sendai reactor

October 3, 2015

Minor quake jolts city adjacent to just-rebooted Kagoshima atomic reactor

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A minor quake struck early Saturday morning in a Kagoshima Prefecture city north of the Sendai nuclear power plant where the first reactor that conforms to strict post-Fukushima safety rules was rebooted in August.

There were no immediate reports of damage, and no tsunami warning has been issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency after the 4:10 a.m. quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1.

The focus of the quake was around 10 kilometers underground in the prefecture's Satsuma region.

The quake registered 4 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Akune city, which lies north of the city of Satsumasendai, the host of the Sendai plant.

Satsumasendai registered an intensity of 2.