new earthquake magnitude 5.8 shook the prefecture again this Friday Ishikawa, west of Japan, hours after earthquake out of 6.5 in the same area there will be one killed and a dozen wounded.

The earthquake occurred at 21:58 local time (12:12 GMT) with its epicenter in the city of I noticed, a peninsula north of Ishikawa and at a depth of about 10 kilometers, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, which has not issued a tsunami warning.

It reached level 5 on the Japanese scale of 7 levels, focused on measuring disturbances on the surface and damage in the prefectures closest to the epicenter.

The tremor came just hours after another 6.5-magnitude quake hit the prefecture with the same epicenter at 2:42 pm local time (0542 GMT) and at a depth of about 12 kilometers.

The agency originally reported a magnitude 6.3 quake, but later changed it to 6.5 and also reported that it occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers, which was later upgraded to 12.

Another seismic activity of magnitude 4 was observed in the city of nagaoka, in the prefecture Niigata (west coast), and magnitude 3 was felt in Tohoku (north).

A 65-year-old man died after falling down a flight of stairs. Suzu (Ishikawa), and about 12 people were slightly injured across the prefecture, according to authorities.

The earthquake also brought the railway lines to a halt in the area of ​​the country, including shinkansen (high speed train) from hokuriku, which crosses the country and connects with tokyo, as indicated by the operators.