"The earthquake's epicenter lay at the depth of 62 km in 116 km to the south-east of the Iturup island," the department said.
Residents of the Kuril islands did not feel the tremors, and no tsunami alert was issued.
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Earthquake of 5 magnitude rocks southern Kuril Islands
11 July 2019
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An earthquake of 5 magnitude was registered off the coast of the southern Kuril Islands, the Sakhalin department of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Service told TASS on Thursday.
