This not so small earthquake provoked a lot of problems, here in Japan. In fact, several trains were late, in the morning, up to 10 minutes!
This is an article about the effects, taken from kyodo news:
TOKYO, April 11, Kyodo - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 rattled the Kanto region Monday morning but there were no reports of casualties, the Japan Meteorological Agency and police said.
No tsunami tidal wave warning was issued for the 7:22 a.m. quake, which registered an intensity of upper 5 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in southern Ibaraki and northeastern Chiba prefectures.
The inland Kanto region was struck by a quake with an intensity of upper 5 or stronger for the first time since the current intensity scale was introduced in 1996.
Runways at Narita airport east of Tokyo were closed for about 15 minutes after the quake but no irregularities were found, airport officials said.
Railway services were suspended on part of the JR Sobu, Narita, Togane and Kashima lines.
About 180 passengers of a Choshi-bound Sobu Line train were crammed inside its six cars for about one hour as the train was stopped between Iikura and Yokaichiba stations after the quake. The passengers later left the train and walked alongside the railway toward Yokaichiba Station.
About 30 passengers have been inside a Kashima Line train for more than three hours as the four-car train stopped on a bridge after it departed Sawara Station.
Bullet train services were also suspended briefly on part of Tohoku, Joetsu and Nagano Shinkansen lines.
In Chiba Prefecture, the quake registered an upper-5 intensity in the towns of Omigawa and Hikata and the cities of Yokaichiba and Asahi. It also recorded an upper 5 in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture.
It measured a lower-5 intensity in the towns of Tako and Nosaka and the city of Sawara, all in Chiba Prefecture.
At the city hall for Yokaichiba, nearly 10 windows were shattered or cracked, city officials said.
A Japan Meteorological Agency official said no aftershocks that might cause major damage are likely to occur.
The focus of the earthquake was 52 kilometers underground in northeastern Chiba Prefecture, the agency said.
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