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The east coast of Japan has been rattled by four offshore earthquakes this morning, but no tsumani damage is expected.
The quakes happened offshore in the early hours of the morning and registered around 6.0 on the richter scale.
The first, at 7.16am (New Zealand time) was a magnitude 6.2 and happened about 400 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, 10km under the seafloor. The second, a 6.1, was in the same area, but much shallower; just 1.2 km deep according to the US Geological Survey.
A third of magnitude 4.9 hit the same area at 10am, while a more powerful 6.1 quake was recorded at 10.22am.
The tremors follow a 7.3 quake in the same area which was felt in Tokyo and created a small tsunami. But no casualties or property damage was reported.
Japan's location on the Pacific Ring of Fire makes it vulnerable to earthquakes. Around a fifth of the world's most powerful quakes strike the country.
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