"The earthquake on October 18, 2021, at 20:24 Kamchatka time (11:24 Moscow time), magnitude Mmax - 5.9, 88 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky," RIA Novosti quotes the message.
According to seismologists, the source was located at a depth of 185 km.
Earlier it was reported that seismologists recorded five earthquakes of magnitude up to 5.1 in the Pacific Ocean near the Kuril Islands.