Three consecutive earthquakes recorded off the coast of Kamchatka
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01 Oct 2026
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Three consecutive earthquakes recorded off the coast of Kamchatka

Their magnitude reached 5.6. According to the regional branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the strongest underground shock was recorded at 06:21 local time. Its epicenter was located 161 kilometers southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, with the hypocenter at a depth of 56 kilometers.

Five minutes later, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 occurred in the same area, followed ten minutes after that by another with a magnitude of 5.3. A tsunami threat was not announced.

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