“The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the water area of ​​the Kronotsky Bay at a distance of 180 kilometers northeast of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The magnitude of the seismic event was 4.5, ”RIA Novosti reports.

It is noted that the focus was located at a depth of 60 km.

No tsunami threat was announced.

Earlier, seismologists recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Kuril island of Shikotan.