“Already recorded more than 10 repeated aftershocks in the same area with a magnitude of 4 and below. But they were not felt in the settlements, ”the service representative said.
It is noted that at 06:26 Sakhalin time near the island of Kunashir an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 occurred, whose epicenter was located 57 km north-west of Yuzhno-Kurilsk.
Earlier, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center recorded an earthquake in northern Japan.