A 6.9-magnitude earthquake jolted the region of the Sea of Okhotsk in southeast Russia on Saturday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
The tremor occurred at 06:13 Moscow time (0213 GMT), the Kamchatka office of the geophysics service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said.
According to seismologists, the epicenter was at a depth of about 600 km under the seabed, 400 km west of the Kamchatka territorial center.
The quake was felt in the far eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Nobody was hurt, and there was no destruction, the Kamchatka territorial emergencies department said, adding that there is no tsunami threat for Kamchatka Peninsula.
Source: Xinhua
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