A magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred near the southern Kuril Islands

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred near the southern Kuril Islands

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 was registered on Monday morning in the Pacific Ocean near the southern Kuriles of the Sakhalin region, the Sakhalin branch of the United Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Interfax. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 occurred on September 21 at 10:25 local time (02:25 Moscow time) with an epicenter 46 km southwest of the village of Krabozabudskoye on Shikotan Island.