Sharjah 24 – WAM: An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck the Kamchatka region in the Russian Far East.

The Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GC RAS) reported in a statement that an earthquake occurred at 9:25 Moscow local time in the Pacific Ocean off the coast in the south of the peninsula, with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale and at a depth of 64 km and 170 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in Russian Far East.

The statement added that no material or human damage was recorded.