Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 strikes Russia's Kuril Islands, no tsunami threat

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit the Kuril Islands in Russia on Sunday. The German Research Center for Geosciences initially reported a magnitude of 6.35. The United States Geological Survey measured it at magnitude 7. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Sy...

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Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 strikes Kuril Islands
An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Russia's Kuril Islands on Sunday day, the German Research Center for Geosciences said.

The agency initially had pegged the earthquake at 6.35 magnitude, with a 10-km (6.2-mile) depth.

The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake was at a magnitude of 7. The Pacific Tsunami Warning System, which also gauged the quake at 7.0, said there was no tsunami warning after the quake.


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