A magnitude 4.6 earthquake hit Russia’s Far Eastern Southern Kuril Islands on Thursday, a spokesman for the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Geophysical Service told TASS.

Earth tremors of up to four-point magnitude were felt in a number of settlements on the Southern Kuril Islands.

"The epicentre of the earthquake was located 127 kilometres south of the Iturup Island at a depth of 51 kilometres," the spokesman said.

No tsunami warning was issued. According to the press service of the Russian emergencies ministry’s Sakhalin department, no casualties or damages were reported.