The Japanese capital and its surroundings were rocked by a 5.3-magnitude earthquake this morning, which caused the suspension of high-speed rail services, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake was recorded at 09:08 (local time; 02:08 Greek time) in Ibaraki prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, at a depth of about fifty kilometers, the Japan Meteorological and Seismological Agency said.

No injuries or damage have been reported so far from the quake, but some high-speed trains, or Shinkansen, running between Tokyo and Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture (northeast) were halted due to power outages, the Japanese government said. NHK television network.

Hiroyuki Sanada, an official with Japan’s nuclear safety agency, assured that “no abnormality” had been found at the Tokani Daini nuclear power plant, which has been suspended for safety checks.

Japan, on the so-called ring of fire of the Pacific Ocean, is among the countries where many of the strongest earthquakes in the world are recorded.

The country remains haunted by the terrible 9-magnitude earthquake and giant tsunami of March 2011 off the country’s northeastern coast, a disaster that left some 20,000 dead and missing.

That earthquake and the tsunami that followed led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one of the two worst in world history, along with that at Chernobyl in 1986.

In early January, a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Noto Peninsula, which is washed by the Sea of ​​Japan, killing more than 230 people, causing the collapse of dozens of buildings and widespread property damage.