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Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 recorded in Kamchatka

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An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 was recorded off the coast of Kamchatka. This was announced on June 9 by the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (USGS RAS).

It is noted that the tremors were recorded at 20:26 Moscow time, 112 km from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, near the Kronotsky Bay. The epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 111 km.

There is no information about the victims. No tsunami threat has been detected.

Earlier, on May 5, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported a 3.9 magnitude earthquake in the waters of the Kamchatka Strait. Residents of the settlements did not feel the tremor, the threat of a tsunami was not announced.

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