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Moscow. September 21st. INTERFAX.RU – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 was registered in the Pacific Ocean near the Kuril Islands of the Sakhalin Region, the Sakhalin branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Interfax.
The seismic event occurred at 07:25 Sakhalin time (Monday 23:05 Moscow time) with an epicenter 86 km southeast of about. Simushir at a depth of 59 km.
“In the village of Goryachy Klyuchi on the Iturup Island, an earthquake was felt with a force of up to two points,” the agency's interlocutor said.
He clarified that the tsunami alarm was not announced. There are no casualties.
