An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.5 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas Saturday, injuring at least seven people in Tokyo, officials said.
The seven people suffered minor bruising when a wall at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo's Ota Ward collapsed, firefighters said.
East Japan Railway Co. and Japan Highway Public Corp. said the quake did not affect railway or highway traffic.
The temblor occurred at around 12:55 p.m. and measured 4 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in Tokyo's 23 wards, southern parts of Ibaraki, Tochigi and Saitama prefectures, northern areas of Chiba Prefecture and the eastern part of Kanagawa Prefecture, the Meteorological Agency said.