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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Vladivostok, July 20 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 was registered 115 km east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (the administrative center of Russia's Kamchatka Krai) on Sunday at 18:49 local time, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported on its Telegram channel.
Earlier, two earthquakes occurred in approximately the same area – with magnitudes of 5.3 and 6.5, respectively. After a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6, two more earthquakes were recorded with magnitudes of 6.8 and 6.4, respectively.
According to TASS, the tremors were felt for about a minute. People ran out of buildings. The press service of the regional Emergencies Ministry said that specialists would begin inspecting the buildings in the near future. A tsunami threat was declared in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky due to a series of tremors in the Pacific Ocean. –0–
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