An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 occurred near the northern Kuril Islands

An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 occurred on Tuesday in the Pacific Ocean near the northern Kuril Islands. This was announced on January 27 by Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station.

"An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 with an epicenter 239 km east of the city of Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir Island was registered at 15.29 (7.29 Moscow time) on January 27," Elena Semenova told RIA Novosti.

According to her information, there was no data on the aftershocks in populated areas, and no tsunami threat was announced. The hearth was located at a depth of 23 km.

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An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 off the coast of Kamchatka was recorded on January 22. According to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the epicenter was located at a depth of 59 km and was located 138 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

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