Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Registered Near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula - Seismologists
Sumaira FH Published January 29, 2020 | 08:50 AM
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 29th January, 2020) KAMCHATSKY, Russia, January 29 (Sputnik) - A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East on Wednesday, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik.
"The epicenter of the earthquake with a 5.5 magnitude was located at the depth of 160 kilometers [99 miles], 67 kilometers southeast of the village of Milkovo in Kamchatka Krai," a GS RAS spokesperson said.
According to the current information, local residents did not feel the earthquake, and there is no damage or casualties caused by the tremor. No tsunami alert has been declared.
Kamchatka is located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from earthquakes. The eastern coast of the peninsula lies along the border of three tectonic plates - Okhotsk, Pacific and North American ones - with the latter two moving toward the first one, which increases the seismic activity in the region.
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