It is noted that the epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean, 181 km east of the village of Reidovo on the Kuril island of Iturup.
“Earth tremors with a magnitude of 5.1 were registered on November 22 at 7:02 (23:02 Moscow time on Monday),” the material says.
In addition, about ten minutes after the first “seismic event”, a second one of magnitude 4.7 was recorded with the epicenter at the same point.
Earlier it became known that an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 occurred in the Kamchatka Bay off the eastern coast of the peninsula.