"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.
According to Semenova, residents of the town of Kurilsk located on Iturup felt the tremors.