“The epicenter was located 11 kilometers northwest of the village of Ado-Tymovo, Tymovsky district.

The source of the earthquake was at a depth of 17 kilometers, ”Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station, told RIA Novosti.

According to the scientist, the residents of the Tymovsky district could feel the tremors.

Earlier, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the east coast of Taiwan.

As a result of tremors, a train derailed, and a three-story building was also destroyed.

Rescuers pulled several people out of the rubble.