According to preliminary data, there were no casualties or destruction caused by the earthquake near the Russian far eastern peninsula.
4 October 2018, 05:51 GMT
Earlier, the US Geological Survey reported that Kamchatka peninsula was hit with a magnitude 6.1 quake on Thursday. The survey also reported that the earthquake's epicentre was located close to the eastern coast of Kamchatka, a region that gets high seismic activity.
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Previously this year, several earthquakes struck the Peninsula. Previous month, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the peninsula with no damage or casualties reported. Two other earthquakes with 5.6 and 5.8-magnitude struck the far eastern Peninsula, according to the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences earlier in the year.
