M4.8 earthquake hits Kamchatka

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, Qazinform News Agency reports, citing TASS.

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Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky felt weak tremors.

“The earthquake had a magnitude of 4.8, with its epicenter located 81 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,” the Kamchatka Branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.

Earlier, it was reported that a magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck central Türkiye on Monday, with its epicenter 17 kilometers northwest of İmamoğlu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).