Vladivostok: Earthquake tremors have been felt off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East area. Its magnitude was recorded at 6.1 on the Richter scale. Native officers stated that there isn’t a information of any injury, casualties or menace of tsunami up to now.
In accordance with information company Xinhua, in response to preliminary knowledge launched by the Kamchatka department of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the earthquake occurred within the Pacific Ocean at 4:24 pm native time. Tremors of as much as 5 magnitude have been felt in a number of settlements of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo, Vilyuchinsk and Yelizovo districts. The epicenter of the earthquake was situated 126 km from the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, at a depth of 27 km under sea stage.
Earlier this month, the Shiveluch volcano erupted within the Kamchatka area after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the japanese coast of Russia. On August 18, the TASS information company, citing the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Japanese Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported that the volcano has began spewing ash and lava. The report quoted scientists as saying, ‘The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano has begun. It may be seen within the photos {that a} cloud of smoke rose as much as 8 kilometers. On Saturday night, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the ocean space off the japanese coast of Kamchatka.
