[Regnum] An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.8 occurred near the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.
The tremor was recorded at 08:37 Moscow time in the Pacific Ocean, 279 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The source was located at a depth of 25.9 km.
“Distance from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is 279 km, depth is 25.9 km, magnitude is 6.8,” the branch’s Telegram channel states.
It is expected that the intensity of the earthquake in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky will be up to 4 points.
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