[Regnum] A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 was recorded off the coast of Cuba on November 10, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) reports.
Earlier, the center's specialists reported an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 off the coast of Cuba, which occurred at 18:50 Moscow time. There is no information yet about possible victims and damage.
The new earthquake occurred 64 km southeast of the city of Manzanillo, with a population of 128,000. Its source was located at a depth of 17 km.
As reported by the Regnum news agency on November 10, according to seismologists, the United States could be threatened by a 30-meter tsunami and a 9-point earthquake.
Experts have found signs of a possible cataclysm by exploring the Cascade Subduction Zone and identifying four segments along the 970 km-long fault.
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Weak ashfall from the Ebeko volcano emission recorded in Severo-Kurilsk
In the city of Severo-Kurilsk in the Sakhalin Oblast, a weak ashfall from the Ebeko volcano was observed on the morning of November 10. This was reported on Sunday by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the region.
“On the morning of November 10, the Crisis Management Center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Sakhalin Region received information from the Federal State Budgetary Institution Sakhalin UGMS that traces of ashfall were observed on the snow cover in the area of the meteorological station as a result of an emission from the Ebeko volcano,” reads a message published on the agency’s Telegram channel.
The Ebeko volcano, which is 1,156 meters high, is located in the north of Paramushir Island in the northern part of the Vernadsky Ridge, seven kilometers northwest of Severo-Kurilsk.
It is noted that, according to information from the Unified Dispatch Service (EDDS), the smell of hydrogen sulfide was not felt in Severo-Kurilsk. No threats to the life of the population were recorded, and no calls were received from the population.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on October 1, the Ebeko volcano ejected ash to a height of 2.8 kilometers. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Sakhalin Region, the plume spread in a north-easterly direction for a distance of more than five kilometers; there was no ashfall in Severo-Kurilsk, and residents did not smell hydrogen sulfide.