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Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake Strikes Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula Near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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Magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula near the Pacific coast. No tsunami warning issued; no casualties or damage reported.
Quake hits Kamchatka
A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Friday, about 161 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The quake occurred at 15:35 local time (0335 GMT) at a depth of 127.8 km, and Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said tremors were felt in parts of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ust-Kamchatsky, Aleutsky, Vilyuchinsk and Yelizovsky. The USGS said the earthquake occurred at 3.35 p.m. local time (0335GMT) near the Pacific Ocean coast, about 76 kilometers (47 miles) northeast of Ozernovskiy, at a depth of 143.2 kilometers.
The US tsunami warning system said no tsunami was expected due to the earthquake's depth, and no tsunami warning was issued in the immediate aftermath. The Global Times report said no injuries or infrastructure damage were reported, and the Anadolu Ajansı report said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Mismatched magnitudes, alerts
Japan's Meteorological Agency mistakenly issued an early warning estimating a magnitude 9.9 earthquake and forecasting strong shaking across much of the country, before canceling it at 12:48 p.m., according to NHK.
The warning was issued at approximately 12:36 p.m. Friday in Japan, late Thursday in the United States, and an early-warning display identified the location as the Kuril Islands region and showed an estimated magnitude of 9.9 at a depth of 140 kilometers.
The USGS measured the actual earthquake at magnitude 6.9, locating its epicenter approximately 76 kilometers (47 miles) northeast of Ozernovskiy, Russia.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said a magnitude-7 earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula region on Friday at a depth of 140 km, according to EMSC.
The NDTV report said the quake hit at 3:35 p.m. local time at a depth of around 140 km, and it said there was no immediate word on casualties, damage or a tsunami threat.
No tsunami, monitoring continues
The US National Tsunami Warning Center said there was no danger following the tremors, and the NDTV report said no tsunami alert was issued in the immediate aftermath of the quake. The Watchers report said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) reported at 03:43 UTC that there was no tsunami threat from this earthquake. The Watchers report also said the USGS issued a Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses, and it said there is a low likelihood of casualties and damage.
Shafaq News said the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences placed the epicenter on land about 156 kilometers southwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at a depth of 138 kilometers. Shafaq News added that the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry announced earlier this month that seismologists recorded 62 earthquakes in Kamchatka within a week.