"A 5.3-magnitude earthquake was registered on Tuesday, at 1:46 p.m. local time [02:46 GMT]. Its epicentre was located … 167 kilometres [103 miles] to the east of the island of Iturup. The seismic centre was located at a depth of 68 kilometres [42 miles]", Elena Semenova, the head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station, said.
M5 - 172km E of Kuril'sk, Russia
— World Earthquakes on the Map (@MapQuake) April 14, 2020
Mag: 5
Depth: 35km
Date-Time: 2020-04-14 02:46:24 UTChttps://t.co/1pFLvBXFOe#USGS #Earthquake #Russia pic.twitter.com/EhF747977l
According to Semenova, residents of the town of Kurilsk located on Iturup felt the tremors.
