7.0-magnitude earthquake jolts Japan's Ogasawara Islands: JMA

TOKYO -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 on Sunday struck waters near the Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean, south of Tokyo, with no tsunami warnings issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

The temblor occurred at around 11:10 am local time at a depth of around 470 km in the waters west of the Ogasawara Archipelago, measuring 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Chichijima and Hahajima islands, said the weather agency.

The quake's epicenter was located at a latitude of 28.0 degrees north and a longitude of 139.9 degrees east.

There was no threat of a tsunami, the JMA added.