A magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurred near the southern Kuril Islands.

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurred near the southern Kuril Islands.

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning in the Pacific Ocean near the southern Kuril Islands of the Sakhalin region, Interfax was told by the Sakhalin branch of the United Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 was recorded on October 21 at 06:53 local time (22:53 Moscow time on October 20 - IF) in the Pacific Ocean with an epicenter 76 km southeast of the uninhabited island of Simushir.