Moscow, Aug. 4 -- A magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred today near the Russian town of Severo-Kurilsk in the northern Kuril Islands, south of Kamchatka, Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station, told Sputnik.
"A magnitude 6.5 earthquake was recorded in the Pacific Ocean on August 4 at 3:20 pm local time [04:20 GMT]. The epicenter was located 232 kilometers [144 miles] east of Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir Island, with the hypocenter 62 kilometers deep," Semenova said.
According to the seismologist, residents of Severo-Kurilsk felt a magnitude 4 aftershock.
On July 30, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, becoming the strongest in the region since 1952, with two more earthquake...