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Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 strikes Kuril Islands, no tsunami threat
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Posted on August 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Posted on August 3, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck the Kuril Islands with no tsunami warning issued. Various agencies reported different magnitudes for the quake.
(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Russia's Kuril Islands on Sunday day, the German Research Center for Geosciences said.
The agency initially had pegged the earthquake at 6.35 magnitude, with a 10-km (6.2-mile) depth.
The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake was at a magnitude of 7. The Pacific Tsunami Warning System, which also gauged the quake at 7.0, said there was no tsunami warning after the quake.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Lincoln Feast and William Mallard)
The earthquake that struck the Kuril Islands was initially reported at a magnitude of 6.7, although the US Geological Survey assessed it at a magnitude of 7.
No tsunami warning was issued after the earthquake, as confirmed by the Pacific Tsunami Warning System.
The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).
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