“Two earthquakes of magnitude 2.7 and 2.3 occurred in the central part of Sakhalin.

Four more, with a magnitude of 2.3 to 4.6, are in the sea near the northern group of the Kuril Islands, ”TASS reports.

According to seismologists, local residents did not feel the tremors.

No tsunami threat was announced.

Earlier, the US Geological Survey recorded a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in the Atlantic off the coast of the South Sandwich Islands.