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A potent 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported Friday night.
Why It Matters
The quake renewed concerns across the Pacific about tsunami risk after a separate, larger sequence of earthquakes in the region this summer, and prompted regional monitoring.
What To Know
The Associated Press notes that the earthquake’s epicenter was more than 69 miles east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, and had a depth of 39 kilometers. The USGS says the quake occurred around 2:37:54 UTC or after 10:30 p.m. ET.
