The depth of the quake was 68 km and the epicenter was some 167 km to the east of Kurilsk on Iturup Island. The 2-magnitude aftershocks could be felt in Kurilsk, according to the seismologists.

As per earlier reports, a plate with an engraving of the constitutional amendment on invariability of Russian territories was placed on the central square of Yuzhno-Kurilsk in Far Eastern Russia ...