[Regnum] An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 was recorded off the coast of Indonesia and the Philippines. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported this on its website on March 8.The epicenter of the tremors was located 146 km southeast of the city of Mati in the Philippines, which is home to 105 thousand people. The source of the earthquake lay at a depth of 125 km.
There were no reports of casualties or damage, and no tsunami threat was declared.
As Regnum reported, earlier on March 8, an earthquake of magnitude 4.8 was recorded off the coast of the Kuril Islands. The tremors occurred at 01:59 Moscow time, 53 kilometers from the island of Simushir in the Pacific Ocean.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 occurred in the Chinese province of Qinghai on March 5. The source of the tremors lay at a depth of ten kilometers; there were no reports of casualties or damage.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred in the Turkish province of Canakkale on March 4. Its epicenter was located near the settlement of Yenidzhe with a population of about 35 thousand people.