Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.7 were recorded off the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean. This has been reported RIA News at the Sakhalin branch of the Joint Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Earthquakes of magnitude 4.7 occurred off the coast of the southern Kuril Islands at 4:41 and 7:05 local time on November 19,” said Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station.
He paid attention. It was stated that the epicenters of the tremors were 52 kilometers southeast of Malokurilskoye village on Shikotan island and 43 kilometers east of Iturup island.
According to Semenova, the first seismic event could be felt by residents of Shikotan and Kunashir, while the second was imperceptible.
During the eruption of an underwater volcano in Japan in early November created new island. According to experts at the Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo University, its diameter is around 100 meters. According to scientists, it will grow even larger in the event of an explosion.
Previously in Turkey dead earthquake.