Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Kuril Islands -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 5.3-magnitude quake hits Kuril Islands -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua| 2026-08-18 05:52:00|Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted Kuril Islands at 2136 GMT on Monday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 46.66 degrees north latitude and 151.26 degrees east longitude.

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