M6 quake strikes off northeast Japan

M6 is very strong! Hope everybody is safe. So many earthquakes around that region since 3/11! Hope the nuke plants around those places and whole Kanto region have been reinforced for future, may be stronger quakes...

It will happen again to a nuke plant if TEPCO doesn't get their crap together...then they will make another excuse then charge us more electricity bills...

We had a 5.2 Sunday night, a 6.0 around 4am and several aftershocks this morning here in south Iwate. It's hard to get a good night's sleep when it's like this. Yawn.

Stay safe up there! Tepco is the exception. The J infrastructure has proven very reliable in handling medium powered earthquakes.

We can positive and say Tepco is the exception or be a bit more negative and say that Tepco, Tokyo Electric is just the tip of a very, very dangerous iceberg! My hopes and prayers are that we have no more messes like up in Fukushima ever again!!

Good news and bad news. It really was a 5.3 off of Iwate. It was incorrectly reported.

So this earthquake happened under the sea right?

@noriyosan,

Seems the timing in the article and reports is a bit off. The 3:58 quake is still noted by JMA as as an M6.1 at 10km as far as I can see.

Stay safe up there! Tepco is the exception. The J infrastructure has proven very reliable in handling medium powered earthquakes.

If you're making reference to Fukushima. It was the tsunami not the earthquake that crippled the plant.

Yokosuka didn't feel a thing. I hope everyone was okay