An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 was recorded in Kamchatka.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 was recorded in Kamchatka. This was announced on August 8 by the seismological branch of the Federal Research Center "Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences" on the official website.

It is specified that the seismic event occurred at 13:20 (04:20 Moscow time).

The source was recorded at a depth of 27 km in the Pacific Ocean.

Notice the shift: earthquake in Kamchatka may happen again within a few months

What can the ongoing seismic activity in the region lead to?

Earlier, on August 6, an aftershock of magnitude 6.4 was recorded in Kamchatka. It is noted that the earthquake occurred 213 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The source was recorded at a depth of almost 39 km in the Pacific Ocean.

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