Sochi residents felt an earthquake in the Black Sea.

Strong tremors were felt in the Lazarevsky district of Sochi, local residents reported. The epicenter of the earthquake was located in the Black Sea, five kilometers offshore.

Residents of the Lazarevsky district of Sochi felt tremors around 1:00 PM Moscow time today; they had not received any prior warnings about seismic events.

According to residents, at lunchtime they felt "increasing vibrations," saw the walls "moving like waves," and saw "the street moving outside," although they had not received any alerts from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, reports "Ostorozhno Novosti."

Some residents of Sochi's Lazarevsky District reported that items fell off shelves and "cracks appeared in the walls," forcing them to temporarily evacuate their homes, according to the SHOT Telegram channel.

Residents of Magri, Lazarevskoye, and Loo reported tremors to emergency services, Sochi Mayor Andrei Proshunin confirmed. According to him, the tremors subsided by 1:45 p.m. Moscow time, and there were "no injuries or damage to infrastructure."

"The earthquake's epicenter was located in the Black Sea, approximately five kilometers off the coast of Sochi. The magnitude of the tremors in the Lazarevsky District was 4.0 on the Richter scale, and 3.0 on the Richter scale in the Central District," Proshunin wrote on his Telegram channel, citing data from the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) recorded a magnitude 4.1 earthquake near Sochi. The earthquake's epicenter is located in the Black Sea at a depth of 10 kilometers, approximately five kilometers from the coast, according to information on the center's website. In the comments, several users from Sochi confirmed they felt fairly strong tremors.

"Razdolnoye, Sochi, shook a little," wrote one commenter. "In Lazarevskoye, the tremor was strong at 12:47 and weaker at 1:06," reported another. "It shook quite a bit," claims another commentator from Lazarevskoye.

Besides Sochi, tremors were felt in Anapa and Tuapse, Interfax-South reported, citing an employee of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that two significant earthquakes were recorded in Sochi in the spring of 2022: in early March, an earthquake with a magnitude of up to 5 was recorded near Sochi, and in May, another seismic event occurred six kilometers from the city center.