The latest quake follows an 8.8 magnitude earthquake near the Kamchatka coast on Wednesday, which sparked a Tsunami that triggered emergency declarations in both Russia and the U.S.

The Kuril Islands stretch from the southern tip of Kamchatka Peninsula. Russian scientists had warned on Wednesday that strong aftershocks were possible in the region in the next several weeks.

There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Kuril Islands on Sunday afternoon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).