Magnitude 6.2 earthquake: Third quake hits Russia's Kamchatka in a week
The quake took place at 8.20am UAE time.
Meanwhile on Sunday, August 3, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Kamchatka at 9.37am UAE local time.
The natural calamity comes days after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, July 30.
Tsunami warnings were issued across several countries after a tsunami of up to 4 metres hit the nation, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across the Pacific Ocean, including the US, Japan, Philippines, Ecuador and China.
Several people were injured in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard was ordered to evacuate.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake was shallow at a depth of 19.3km, and was centred 119km east-southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city of 165,000. It revised the magnitude up from 8.0 earlier, and reported a strong aftershock of magnitude 6.9 soon after.
After the main earthquake off Kamchatka, 30 additional tremors with magnitudes of 2 to 5 on the seismic scale were recorded.
Following the quake, the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka erupted for the first time in 600 years, in what scientists believe could have been triggered due to the earthquake.
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