A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit southern Japan, recorded at sea about seven miles southeast of the city of Miyazaki. It prompted a tsunami advisory.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Kyushu region in Japan on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru;