A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East on Sunday morning, Russian and US seismological services reported.
The USGS seismological service initially issued a tsunami warning, before lifting it.
The local branch of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations also announced that there was “no threat of a tsunami.”
The tremor was felt as far away as the regional capital, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the Russian ministry’s branch said. “Teams of rescuers and firefighters are inspecting buildings,” it wrote on Telegram.
The earthquake occurred at a depth of nearly 50 kilometers in waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula, about 90 kilometers east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, according to the USGS.
Several aftershocks were subsequently recorded, of lesser intensity, the Kamchatka branch of the Russian Geophysical Service reported on its website.
The Kamchatka Peninsula is where the Pacific and North American tectonic plates meet, making the region one of the most seismically active zones on the planet.
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