Overview

• Russia’s Emergency Ministry reported 33 aftershocks up to magnitude 6.0 in the latest 24 hours, following 32 the previous day that reached magnitude 6.3.
• The Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences recorded a submarine magnitude‑6.3 event at 51.3007N, 159.8685E at 6:18 a.m. local time, after an earlier magnitude‑6.0 quake about 214 kilometers from Petropavlovsk‑Kamchatsky at ~19 kilometers depth.
• Regional officials said some buildings were damaged and reopened temporary shelters in Petropavlovsk‑Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk and Yelizovsky District.
• Elevated activity follows the July 30 magnitude‑8.8 mainshock and a powerful magnitude‑7.8 aftershock on September 19 that produced intensity‑7 shaking in populated areas and a short‑lived tsunami threat.
• Scientists cautioned that the timing of strong earthquakes cannot be predicted reliably, while monitoring continues for heightened unrest at the Kambalny, Bezymianny, Shiveluch, Klyuchevskoy, Karymsky and Krasheninnikov volcanoes.