“The seismic event occurred on Thursday morning, local time. Its epicenter was on land at a depth of 7.3 km, 68 km north of the district center of Ust-Kamchatsk, ”said a representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
It is noted that earlier in the water area of Avacha Bay, 53 km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, an earthquake of 4.8 magnitude occurred.
The State Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region noted that none of these earthquakes were felt in the settlements.
At the end of September, seismologists recorded an earthquake of 4.3 magnitude off the coast of Kamchatka.