Nearly a decade ago, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture–very close to where today’s earthquake struck, though today’s earthquake was much deeper.
At this time, the organization is considering today’s earthquake an aftershock of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
At 11:08 PM Japan Time on February 13, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima and Miyagi prefecture in north-east Japan with the earthquake being felt as far as Aichi prefecture in western Japan.