An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale was registered in Kamchatka, the Telegram channel of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies reported situations for the Kamchatka region.
"The felt earthquake occurred on October 27 at 16:49 local time. The magnitude of the earthquake is 5.6. The epicenter is in the waters of the Kronotsky Bay, 164 km east of the village of Milkovo”, the report says.
According to the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a seismic event with a magnitude of up to 2 was felt on the territory of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. No tsunami threat has been declared.