Overview
- Kamchatka recorded 17 aftershocks up to magnitude 4.9 in the past day, with one event felt in populated areas, according to the regional emergency service.
- A natural emergency regime remains in place as scientists note increased activity at Klyuchevskoy, Bezymianny, Shiveluch, Karymsky, Kambalny and Krasheninnikov, with public advisories to avoid the volcanoes.
- Japan’s Meteorological Agency reported a magnitude 6.5 off the northeast coast with an estimated 10‑meter focus depth, a peak intensity of 4, light shaking in Tokyo and no reports of casualties or damage.
- A separate magnitude 5.6 quake east of Miyako was logged by the European‑Mediterranean Seismological Centre at 19 kilometers depth with no immediate damage reports.
- Elsewhere, the US Geological Survey measured a magnitude 5.7 in the Gulf of California and Yuzhno‑Sakhalinsk seismologists reported a magnitude 4.8 near the southern Kurils, where no tsunami alert was issued and shaking was felt on Iturup.