Northern Kuriles had earthquake measuring 5,1

In the Sakhalin branch of Uniform geophysical service Russian Academy of Sciences reported about registered at 12:45 (04:45 Moscow time) the earthquake measuring 5,1 in the Pacific Ocean at Kuriles, is transferred by information agency "ITAR-TASS". "Epicenter of an earthquake settled down in 294 kilometers South to the west Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The seismic center was at a depth of 62 kilometers", – the chief of a seismic station "Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk" Helena Semenov told. She added that inhabitants of Severo-Kurilsk on the island Paramushir felt an earthquake measuring 2-3 points. Earlier European-Mediterranean seismological center registered the underground...