TOKYO, April 1. /TASS/. A strong earthquake has struck north of Tokyo in the Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued an emergency warning in this regard.

Seismologists later reported the earthquake’s magnitude of 5. There is no tsunami threat. Powerful tremors were also felt in central Tokyo.

On the Japanese earthquake intensity scale, which measures how the tremors are felt on the surface, the force of the tremors was 5-.