The Kuril Islands of Japan had an earthquake on December 27 with a Richter scale magnitude of 6.3, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS).
The NCS reports that the earthquake happened at a depth of 10 kilometers at about 2.45 pm IST. The NCS determined that the earthquake’s epicenter was located at latitude 44.36 and longitude 149.23.
Concerning X, the NCS reported, “Please refer to the information provided by the location of the earthquake in Kuril Islands, Japan, Lat: 44.36 & Long: 149.23, Depth: 10 km, and Magnitude: 6.3.” However, two earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.5 and 5.0 hit close to Japan’s coast in short succession, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), as reported by India Today.
The USGS said that the second earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale, jolted at 3:07 pm, while the first, measuring 6.5, occurred at 2:45 p.m. and had its epicenter off the southeast coast of the Kuril Islands. The USGS reports that the two earthquakes struck at a depth of 23.8 km and 40 km, respectively, in the same area.
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Taiwan region earlier on December 24, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), which was cited by Reuters. It reported that the epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles).
