(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The quake was at a depth 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said.

(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue)

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