A tsunami warning has been alerted for the area. (File)
Sydney, Australia:
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck simply off the coast from the Pacific nation of Vanuatu late Sunday, the US Geological Survey stated, triggering a tsunami warning for the area.
The shallow quake hit round 11:30 pm native time (1230 GMT) round 27 kilometres (17 miles) deep, stated the USGS, which positioned it about 25 kilometres from the village of Port-Olry.
“Tsunami waves reaching 0.3 to at least one metre above the tide stage are doable for some coasts of Vanuatu,” the NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii stated.
Waves smaller than 0.3 metres have been doable for New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, it added.
Vanuatu is a part of the Pacific “Ring of Hearth”, the place tectonic plates collide, and it experiences frequent seismic and volcanic exercise.
Solomon Islands, a close-by island nation simply north of Vanuatu, was in November hit with a powerful 7.0 quake, although there have been no experiences of great accidents or main structural injury.
Eyewitnesses reported violent shaking that hurled objects to the bottom and knocked out energy in elements of the capital Honiara.
The coastal areas of Vanuatu and close by Papua New Guinea was placed on alert for tsunami waves of as much as 30 centimetres (12 inches).
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