A severe earthquake estimated to measure 6,7 on the Richter scale on Monday struck in the north-eastern Pacific coastal area of Russia, the Hong Kong observatory said.
The quake struck at 7.21pm Hong Kong time and its epicentre was located some 870km east of the Siberian city of Magadan, the observatory said.
This would put it somewhere in the Bering Sea off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
A series of violent earthquakes measuring up to 7,9 on the Richter scale shook the Kamchatka penisula’s Koryakiya region earlier this month, affecting 12 villages with a total population of 12 000 people.
Dozens of people received minor injuries, and hundreds were evacuated from 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 9 on the Richter scale, the fourth-biggest since 1900, according to data from the United States Geological Survey. — AFP
