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A potent 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka area, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported Friday night time.
Why It Issues
The quake renewed issues throughout the Pacific about tsunami threat after a separate, bigger sequence of earthquakes within the area this summer season, and prompted regional monitoring.
What To Know
The Related Press notes that the earthquake’s epicenter was greater than 69 miles east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, and had a depth of 39 kilometers. The USGS says the quake occurred round 2:37:54 UTC or after 10:30 p.m. ET.
