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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred near the Amukta volcano in the Aleutian Islands
2024-05-20
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, 37 km southeast of Amukta Island, the Kamchatka branch of the geophysical service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.

The earthquake occurred at 12:35 Moscow time. The outbreak lay at a depth of 33 km. No tsunami threat was declared.

According to the Volcano Discovery portal, the magnitude of the earthquake was 6.0. The outbreak lay at a depth of 30 km.

On the island of Amukta there is an active stratovolcano of the same name with a height of 1066 meters. The last time the volcano was active was in 1997. Amukta is the westernmost volcano of the Four Hills Islands.

As Regnum reported, on May 11, an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 occurred in the waters of Avacha Bay, 66 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The day before, on May 18, seismologists recorded an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 off the coast of the Philippines with its epicenter in the Celebes Sea. The tremors were recorded 326 km southeast of the city of Jolo; the source was located at a depth of 528 km.
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