An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 was recorded in the south of Kamchatka

Tremors were registered at 09:03 Moscow time, the earthquake center lay 340 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

“I was looking at something on my phone when I realized it was shaking.

I looked at the chandelier - it was swinging.

Not scary, but unpleasant, ”said Alexander Abdurakhmanov, a resident of the city, to RIA Novosti.

Russian President Vladimir Putin previously instructed the government to ensure the development and implementation of a set of measures aimed at studying hazardous natural phenomena, as well as conducting permanent seismic monitoring in seismically hazardous areas.