TASS, June 22. A 4.6 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the sea off the Crimean coast on Thursday morning, with the epicenter located 59 km from Sevastopol, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported.

According to its information, the earthquake occurred at 5:42 a.m. Moscow time in the sea south of Sevastopol at a depth of 10 km.

Crimea is an earthquake-prone region. Over the past 100 years, major earthquakes of magnitude 5-7 have been recorded there.