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M 6.9 earthquake strikes off Kamchatka's southern coast near Ozernovskiy

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Russia's earthquake monitoring authority

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck 76 kilometers northeast of Ozernovskiy, a small settlement on Kamchatka's southern coast, on October 15. The tremor originated 143 kilometers underground, inside the Pacific Plate slab diving beneath the peninsula.

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