Three earthquakes were registered deep underground near Kurile Islands in the past 24 hours. Tremor force 3.9 Richter scale was registered overnight in the Sea of Okhotsk near the western coast of the Iturup Island. The epicenter was 140 kilometers underground, Itar-Tass reported. Two other quakes force 3.7 and 4.0 were also registered in the Sea of Okhotsk at a depth of 120 to 250 kilometers below the seabed on Thursday. The first occurred 250 kilometers west of the town of Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir Island and the other 70 kilometers southwest of the town of Kurilsk on Iturup. Sakhalin emergency center said no tremors were felt in any residential settlement of the Kurile range.
