PETROPAVLOSK-KAMCHATSKY, January 2 (RIA Novosti, Oksana Guseva) - Russian seismologists said Monday that the magnitude-4.4 undersea earthquake had been registered late Sunday in the Pacific Ocean about 40 miles south-east to Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula.

No casualties or damage were reported in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the administrative center of the Kamchatka Peninsula, hit by the quake, which measured between two and three on the Richter Scale.

In a separate development, the magnitude-5.7 undersea earthquake was recorded Monday near the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, according to Hong Kong seismologists.