A magnitude 5 earthquake was recorded on Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the southern Kuril Islands, Elena Semenova, director of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station, told RIA Novosti.
“On November 1 at 7:52 a.m. (Thursday 11:52 p.m. Moscow time) an earthquake of magnitude 5 was recorded. The epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean, 159 kilometers east of the village of Malokurilskoye on the island of Shikotan. The origin of the tremors was located at a depth of 56 kilometers.” —said the agency’s interlocutor.
According to their information, there were no reports of the earthquake being felt in settlements on the Kuril Islands and no tsunami warning was declared.
