Russia is on tsunami alert after a huge magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan.
Last Quake, an independent scientific organization and provider of real-time earthquake information, tweeted: “M6.5 occurred 113km SE of Kuril’sk (Russian Federation) 10 min ago (local time 19:15:16).”
News agency RT India also tweeted a map showing where the earthquake hit, writing alongside this: “Huge M6.5 Earthquake Hits Russia’s Kuril’sk – EMSC informs public in Japan & US to follow tsunami alert updates.”
The Japan Meteorological Agency said a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the southeast coast of Etorofu Island, with an epicentre depth of 160km.
A map shared online by the Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Centre of Japan Meteorological Agency shows “locations for which tsunami arrival times and heights are forecasted” off the coasts of several countries – including Russia and Japan.
The JMA has also listed three smaller earthquakes that were recorded in the two hours before the biggest one hit.
These are in magnitude 2.4 in Central and western Mino, Gifu Prefecture; magnitude 3.8 off the coast of Iwate Prefecture; and magnitude 3.5 off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture.
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