OREANDA-NEWS  An earthquake of magnitude 5 was registered on Friday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the southern Kuriles, Elena Semenova, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station, told RIA Novosti.

"An earthquake of magnitude 5 was registered on November 1 at 7.52 (Thursday 23.52 Moscow time). The epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean 159 kilometers east of the village of Malokurilskoye on the island of Shikotan. The source of the tremors was located at a depth of 56 kilometers," the agency interlocutor said.

According to her information, there were no reports of an earthquake in the Kuril settlements, and no tsunami alert was announced.