About it reports RIA Novosti with reference to the Kamchatka branch of the FIC "United Geophysical Service RAS".

“A seismic event of magnitude 5.0 occurred in the water area of ​​Kronotsky Bay on Sunday night from Monday,” the agency’s source said.

According to him, the epicenter was at a depth of 52.4 kilometers, about 160 kilometers northeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

In early July, four earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.3 to 4.9 occurred off the coast of Kamchatka in the Pacific.