This is reported in the press service of the company "Kamchatskenergo".

"In the village of Kozyrevsk and the village of Mayskoye, severe ash and sleet caused the restriction of electricity supply," RIA Novosti quoted the message as saying.

It is noted that power engineers are waiting for the end of ash and snowfall to clear insulators on village power lines and transformer substations.

The company added that social facilities are connected to backup power sources.

The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Kamchatka Territory reported that an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 was recorded in the waters of the Avacha Bay off the south-eastern coast of Kamchatka.

The department reports that local residents felt tremors.

In Kamchatka, earlier there was an eruption of the volcano Sheveluch with the release of ash.