A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported near the Kuril Islands, with details provided by RIA News, citing the Sakhalin branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The epicenter lay 129 kilometers southeast of the Kuril Island of Matua, and the seismic source was at a depth of about 40 kilometers, according to Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station. She noted that there were no reports of felt shaking and no tsunami alerts were issued. (Source: RIA News, Sakhalin branch, Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Meanwhile, on November 8, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre issued a warning that a magnitude 6.8 earthquake would occur, approximately 320 kilometers from the village of Tual in Maluku province. In the same bulletin, the centre had previously reported a magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the coast of Ambon Island in Indonesia. The epicenter of that event was recorded to be about 351 kilometers southeast of the city of Ambon, which shares its name with the island and is home to roughly 355,000 people. (Source: European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)
Earlier, Afghanistan appealed for international assistance in the wake of the earthquake. (Source: European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre)
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