A magnitude 5 earthquake was recorded near the northern Kuril Islands

A magnitude 5 earthquake was recorded near the northern Kuril Islands

A magnitude 5 earthquake occurred Wednesday night in the Pacific Ocean near the northern Kuril Islands of the Sakhalin region, the Sakhalin branch of the United Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Interfax. A magnitude 5 earthquake was recorded on the night of September 23 in the Pacific Ocean with an epicenter 80 km southeast of the city of North Kurilsk on the island.