A potent 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported Friday night.

Why It Matters

The quake renewed concerns across the Pacific about tsunami risk after a separate, larger sequence of earthquakes in the region this summer, and prompted regional monitoring.

What To Know

The Associated Press notes that the earthquake’s epicenter was more than 69 miles east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, and had a depth of 39 kilometers. The USGS says the quake occurred around 2:37:54 UTC or after 10:30 p.m. ET.

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Two people are shown sitting out on a breakwater after much of coastal Japan went on tsunami alert following an 8.7 magnitude earthquake in the sea off eastern Russia, along Tokyo Bay in Chiba City,…