(CNN) - a major earthquake struck off the coast of the northeastern coast of the Sunday Japan, prompting tsunami view cancelled later, said the Meteorological Agency (JMA) Japan.
Small tsunamis were observed along the coast, measuring between 10 and 20 centimetres, said the JMA.
There was no immediate report of injuries or damage, the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake at 10: 57 a.m. at the epicenter, about 130 km from Sendai.
The earthquake has more than 20 miles and had a magnitude of 7.0, the USGS said.
The JMA measured the magnitude of the earthquake to 7.1.
Tsunami advisories have been issued - and then cancelled - for the coastal regions of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. The domains were among the hardest hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami of this year.
Officials in Ofunato, a city of Iwate, advised residents to evacuate.
The JMA, immediately after the earthquake, prediction of that the height of the tsunami could reach half a metre (20 inches).
No immediate anomalies have been reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, according to Kyodo.
Three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failures suffered after the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that devastated the North of the Japan. The tsunami overwhelmed the plant and eliminated cooling systems which prevented three reactors operation of overheating, leading to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Sunday earthquake tremors are felt as far as Tokyo.
"It's just a continuous replicas of this devastating 9.0," said Dale Grant, a Geophysicist with the USGS, referring to the shock of March. "These kinds of aftershocks are likely to occur for some time."Yoko Wakatsuki of CNN have contributed to this report.
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