The US Geological Survey described the quake as an ‘aftershock’ from a massive magnitude 8.8 quake that struck in July.

The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Russia’s Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region at a depth of 10 kilometers...

The epicenter was located 125 km northeast from the region’s administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, at the depth of 40 kilometers