Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Russia's Kamchatka, GFZ says

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near the east coast of the Kamchatka region in Russia's far east on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The quake was 10 km (6.2 miles) deep, GFZ said.

(Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)

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