“An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 was recorded on Wednesday at 01:36 Sakhalin time (Tuesday 17:36 Moscow time). The epicenter was located 58 km southeast of the city of Yuzhno-Kurilsk (Kunashir Island) at a depth of 96 km, ”Interfax quotes a representative of the Sakhalin branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The tsunami alarm was not announced, there were no destruction and injuries.
In November it was reported that an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 occurred near the Kuril Islands.