A magnitude 5 earthquake struck near the southern Kuril Islands.

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck near the southern Kuril Islands.

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck early Friday 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. A magnitude 5 earthquake was recorded on October 23 at 04:21 local time (20:21 Moscow time on October 22 - IF) in the Pacific Ocean with an epicenter 34 km northwest of the village of Malokurilskoe on the island.