German Center: Earthquake strikes off the Russian Kuril Islands

Arab Sea Newspaper - Special

Arabian Sea_Agencies: The German Research Center for Geosciences said that an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 occurred off the Russian Kuril Islands on Monday. The center explained that the earthquake was at a depth of 10 kilometers. New earthquake in Kamchatka This earthquake comes a day after another earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the eastern coast of the Russian Kamchatka region. A statement from the Federal Research Center of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences confirmed that "the earthquake occurred at 00:29 Moscow time, and its coordinates were determined at latitude 51.9491 north and longitude 160.8598 east, at a depth of approximately 49.6 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean." Official information indicated that the epicenter of the earthquake was 197 kilometers from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which made the residents feel the vibrations clearly, according to what a number of them circulated on social media platforms. This earthquake comes less than a month after the violent tremor that struck Kamchatka on July 30, which was described as the strongest since 1952, after it recorded a magnitude of 8.8.