*Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places
Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Strikes in Sea Off Russia, USGS Says*
By Simeon Bennett
July 5 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck beneath the Sea
of Okhotsk today, the U.S. Geological Survey said. No tsunami alert was
issued.
The earthquake happened at 1:12 p.m. local time, 384 kilometers (239
miles) west-northwest of Petropavlovsk- Kamchatskiy in Russia, and 2,273
kilometers north-northeast of Tokyo, the USGS said on its Web site.
The quake was 605 kilometers beneath the earth's surface.
