An earthquake Wednesday with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 in the Richter scale hit Tokyo and other areas of eastern Japan, but there were no reports of casualties or damage. The Meteorological Agency said there would be no tidal waves from the 5:27 p.m. quake, which shook buildings in the capital.

Its focus was around 390 km below sea level off the Kii Peninsula, the agency said.

Ground movements of intensity 4 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 were recorded in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture; Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture; and Namie, Fukushima.

Central Tokyo, northern Ibaraki, and parts of Miyagi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures registered intensity 3.