TOKYO - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Tokyo Monday morning, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported.


INDEPTH: Earthquakes

Both runways at Tokyo's Narita international airport shut down for about 15 minutes and commuter trains were delayed, authorities said.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the quake was centred northeast of Tokyo and about 60 kilometres underground.

There was no danger of a tsunami, the agency said.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, which lies in one of the world's most seismologically active regions.

A magnitude 7.0 quake with a series of aftershocks shook southern Japan in March, killing one person and injuring more than 400 others.


FROM MARCH 20, 2005: Japanese quake injures more than 400, kills 1

In the worst recent incident, a series of quakes struck in late October and killed 39 people. The quakes cut water and gas services in Niigata prefecture, about 250 kilometres north of Tokyo, and left more than 46,000 people living in emergency shelters.


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That quake was the most devastating in Japan since 1995, when a quake with a magnitude of 7.2 killed 6,000 people in Kobe.

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