VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- An aftershock measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Friday, the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on its Telegram channel.
The tremor struck at 22:11 local time (1011 GMT) about 97 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital, at a depth of 48 km.
On July 30, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck the Avacha Bay area of the peninsula, the strongest recorded in the region since 1952. ■
