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TOKYO, April 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale jolted Japan's Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity in northeastern Japan at 23:32 p.m. (1432 GMT) local Time Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.
The JMS earlier issued tsunami warning following the strong quake, but the alert was lifted later.
The focus of the quake was located some 40 km under the sea off the northeastern prefecture, where has been devastated by the March 11 earthquake, said the agency.
Xinhua's office building in Tokyo swayed for a while when the quake occurred.
The JMA considered the quake as the aftershock of the devastating quake last month.
The quake has not brought further damage to the nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture so far, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. However, engineers stepping up efforts to fix the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been evacuated following the strong tremor late on Thursday, Tokyo Electric officials told a televised news conference.
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