“Earth tremors of magnitude 6.0 were registered on August 8 at 00:40.
The epicenter was located 117 km east of the village of Malokurilskoye on the island of Shikotan, ”RIA Novosti quotes the words of a representative of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station.
It is noted that the source of the earthquake lay at a depth of 25 km.
Earlier it became known that an earthquake of magnitude 5.6 occurred in the northeast of Japan off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.