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Wed, 06/15/2011 - 08:30
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Moderate earthquake hits Kamchatka's eastern coast.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- A magnitude 4.8
earthquake hit the eastern coast of Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka
peninsula, the Kamchatka branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences'
Geophysical Service told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The quake was registered at 11:01 a.m. local time (03:01 a.m. Moscow
time). Its epicenter was located at a depth of 90.5 kilometers in the
Kamchatka bay near the Kozlov cape some 110 kilometers to the south of the
settlement of Krutoberegovo and 355 kilometers to the north of
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
There were no reports about damages or casualties. No tsunami warning
was issued.


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