Magnitude-6.1 earthquake and raging wildfires strike Japan's north

A preliminary magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck northern Japan early on Monday, local time, the US Geological Survey has reported, but there are no immediate reports of fatalities or damage. The earthquake struck at 5:24am, 18 kilometres west of the small town of Sarabetsu in Hokkaido at a depth of 81km. Last Monday, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake off northern Japan sparked a short-lived tsunami alert and an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible mega-quake for its coastal areas.

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