No casualties from 7.0-magnitude quake in east Russia

A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Russia's Far East on Saturday morning, US and Russian authorities said, although there were no reports of any casualties. The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 0325 GMT at a depth of 160 kilometres (100 miles), in the mountainous Kamchatka Krai region on Russia's eastern coast. The local branch of Russia's emergency situations ministry said the origin of the quake was located northwest of the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
"The epicentre was located in the region of Yelizovo, 84 kilometres northwest of Yelizovo and 87 kilometres northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky," the ministry said in a statement.