By Bernama,
Yuzhno, Sakhalinsk : A total of three earthquakes have been registered in Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands since Monday morning, officials at the Far-Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defence told Russian news agency, Itar-Tass.
The magnitude of the most powerful quake totaled 6.1 points on the open-ended Richter scale.
This quake occurred at 04:42 GMT Monday in the Pacific Ocean 51 kilometres away from the island of Paramushir. Its seismic focus was located at a depth of 80 kilometers under the ocean’s floor.
Shocks measuring up to 4.0 points were felt in the town of Severo-Kurilsk. People in the Kamchatka territory’s capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and in the town of Ozerkovsky felt shocks ranging from 2.0 points to 3,0 points.
A weak earthquake occurred on the same day in are 64 kilometres away from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the insular Sakhalin region. A shock 2.0 points strong was felt in the village of Kostromskoye.
In the small hours of Tuesday morning, an earthquake totaling 4.1 points occurred in the Pacific to the east of the Kuriles. It did not have any after effects.