“The seismic event occurred on Friday morning local time. Its focus lies at a depth of 51 km. The epicenter was located 158 km north-east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ”, Interfax reports

There are no victims of the natural phenomenon. The tsunami threat was not announced.

On February 16, an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 occurred in the Kamchatka Gulf off the eastern coast of the peninsula.