The quake struck at 5:33 a.m. on Saturday (2033 GMT on Friday) near Awaji island in the Seto Inland Sea southwest of the city of Kobe at a comparatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), Japan’s meteorological agency reported.
The United States Geological Survey also measured the quake at 6.0 but at a depth of five kilometers (3.1 miles).
Earthquakes are common in Japan, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where the meeting of four tectonic plates causes high seismic activity.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing and crippled the cooling systems at the Fukushima nuclear plant, which caused meltdowns of three of its reactors.
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