An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 was recorded near the northern Kuril Islands.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday afternoon 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. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 was recorded on November 12 at 12:18 Sakhalin time (04:18 Moscow time) in the Pacific Ocean with an epicenter 79 km southeast of the city of Severo-Kurylsk on the island.