On September 15, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry (EMERCOM) said that a new 5.8-magnitude earthquake had hit an area in the Pacific Ocean, near Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.
In a notice on Telegram, EMERCOM said that the earthquake occurred on the afternoon of September 15 (local time), with coordinates determined to be about 53 degrees north latitude, 160 degrees east longitude and a center of impact of 50.3km deep.
According to EMERCOM, the center of the earthquake was about 107km northeast of Petropavlovsk- Kam Kamchatchatsky city.
According to the Kamchatka branch of the United Geophysical Services of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), strong aftershocks of about 4 degrees richter were felt in some areas of the central region.
Previously, on September 13, the coastal area of Kamchatcha also suffered another earthquake, strong at 7.1 richter.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake occurred about 111km east of the Russian city of Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky, 39.5km deep.
At that time, the Pacific City Surge Warning Center (PTWC) warned that the earthquake could cause dangerous waves 1m high, appearing along some nearby Russian coasts.
PTWC added that Hawaii and a series of other islands in the Pacific region may also see heavy but not strong waves, the waves are estimated to be 30cm below.
