A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the coast of northern California, but no major tsunami threat was expected, seismologists said. The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 6:49 am (1449 GMT), was located 97 miles (157 kilometers) west of Ferndale, California at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 ...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that the Western countries’ threats of imposing new sanctions on Russia over the situation in Syria are groundless. Moscow hopes that threats of imposing sanctions against Russia over the situation in Syria will not be implemented in practice, Peskov said. “The continuation of the ...