Kamchatka: An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck off the eastern coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday.

According to Qatar News Agency, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that the earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 50.4 km, approximately 208 km from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Residents in some neighborhoods of the city reported feeling the tremors.

In a related incident earlier this year, on July 30, the region experienced its strongest earthquake in the entire monitoring period, with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale. This event, recorded by the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, also generated a tsunami wave that reached up to four meters in height along the Kamchatka coast.