A series of earthquakes measuring from 5,5 to 6,9 on the Richter scale rocked Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka peninsula early on Sunday, hitting the same spot where powerful tremors left hundreds of people without shelter last week, the Kamchatka seismological service said.
The quakes damaged several buildings in Kamchatka’s sparsely populated Koryakiya district but there were no casualties, an official with the emergencies ministry’s far-eastern office said.
”A bakery was damaged in the village of Korf, as a well as a power station which we had been about to relaunch after it had been repaired” following last week’s quake, the official said.
A series of violent earthquakes measuring up to 7,9 on the Richter scale shook Koryakiya last week, affecting 12 villages with a total population of 12 000 people.
Dozens of people received mild injuries from the tremors, and hundreds were evacuated out of the quake zone.
The Kamchatka peninsula, which is about the size of Japan, has a population density of less than one person per square kilometre.
In 1952, the region was rocked by an earthquake measuring nine on the Richter scale, the fourth-biggest since 1900, according to data from the United States Geological Survey. — Sapa-AFP