Off the coast of Kamchatka earthquake of magnitude 5.6 – RBC

seismologists registered an earthquake of magnitude 5.6, which occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kamchatka. The center of the earthquake was at a depth of 129 km. This was reported on the website of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of Russian Academy of Sciences.

The representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences said the agency “Interfax-Far East” that the epicenter of the earthquake was located 109 km south-east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

in the management of the Kamchatka Territory Russian Emergency Ministry agency reported that in the settlements earthquake was not felt

«victims and destruction no threat of a tsunami has not been announced,” -. the representative office said

at the end of January in Kamchatka as an earthquake. The magnitude of the tremors was 7. After the first shock was not registered at least seven aftershocks of magnitude 2.0 to 4.8. there was no earthquake victims.