A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the coast of Russia's Kuril Islands, ONA reports citing the Sakhalin branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"A magnitude 5.9 earthquake was registered at 14:22 Saturday [03:22 GMT] near the Kuril Islands", head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station Elena Semenova said.
The epicentre of the aftershocks was located at 41.9 degrees north latitude and 147.0 degrees east longitude, some 160 miles southeast of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, a regional centre on Kunashir Island, at a depth of 23 miles, she added.
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