A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 jolted central Japan Sunday, slightly injuring two people and damaging a 400-year-old castle's stone wall, police and officials said. There was no danger of a tsunami, the Meteorological Agency said.The 12:19 p.m. (0319 GMT) quake was centered in Mie Prefecture (state), about 320 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of Tokyo, and about 16 kilometers (10 miles) underground, the agency said, revising an earlier magnitude of 5.3 and depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). It did not provide reasons for the changes.
Two people -- a 59-year-old woman and 60-year-old man -- suffered minor head and shoulder injuries at a roadside restaurant in Kameyama city when part of a ceiling fell on them, according to the municipal fire department.
The quake also caused part of a stone wall to collapse at the more than 400-year-old Kameyama Castle, but nobody was injured, according to local police.
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