[HIGHLIGHTS] In the Kamchatka Territory there were two earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 and 5.2

Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 and 5.2 occurred on Thursday in the Kamchatka Territory. Epicenter of the earthquake was in the Pacific Ocean, 122 km south-east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky urban district.

On May 1, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported that seismologists recorded an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 off the islands of the Japanese Ryukyu archipelago. A swarm of earthquakes had been observed on the Shiveluch volcano for several days and a new lava dome was growing.