A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday.
The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 24 km, the USGS said.
The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) previously estimated the earthquake’s magnitude at 6.4.
Monday’s earthquake in Kamchatka comes just months after a massive 8.8 earthquake in July this year triggered tsunami warnings in the Pacific.
Despite its power – the July earthquake was the strongest recorded in the world since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan, and is tied with earthquakes in Ecuador and Colombia in 1906 and in 2010 as the sixth strongest earthquake in Chile – there were minimal casualties and damage, with only one death reported.
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