Strong convulsion hits off southern Japan coast

TOKYO – A able convulsion befuddled several baby islands off Japan's southern bank on Sunday, awkward barrio over 100 afar (160 kilometers) abroad in Taiwan and causing admiral to briefly affair a tsunami warning.

There were no actual letters of accident or casualties.

Japan's Meteorological Agency said the convulsion hit at 3:10 p.m. (0610 GMT; 2:10 a.m. EDT) and registered consequence 6.6. The U.S. Geological Survey abstinent it at 6.4.

Japanese admiral anon issued a admonishing for a tsunami about 1.6 anxiety (50 centimeters) high, but removed the admonishing about an hour later.

The convulse was additionally acquainted in Taiwan, about 155 afar (250 kilometers) to the east, area association in Taipei could feel barrio shake.

The convulse hit 69 afar (110 kilometers) off the southern bank of Miyakojima island, in southern Japan, at a abyss of six afar (10 kilometers), the Meteorological Agency said.

The baby island is about 1,120 afar (1,800 kilometers) southwest of Tokyo.

Japan is one of the world's best earthquake-prone countries. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 convulse in the western anchorage burghal of Kobe dead 6,400 people.