An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 was recorded off the western coast of Sakhalin

An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 was recorded near the western coast of Sakhalin Island. This was announced on Friday morning, January 30, by Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station.

"The epicenter was located in the Tatar Strait, 27 km west of the village of Olshanka in the Uglegorsky district on the western coast of Sakhalin," she said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The expert added that the tremors, which originated at a depth of 18 km, were recorded at 12:00 (04:00 Moscow time). One of them, with a strength of up to two points, was felt, as she specified, in the villages of Orlovo and Olshanka. The threat of a tsunami as a result of the incident has not been announced.

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Representatives of the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) reported a day earlier that they had recorded a magnitude 5.5 earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka. At that time, the epicenter of this phenomenon, the focus of which was at a depth of 46.5 km, was 200 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

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