Great Earthquakes In Diverse Places
Large 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits off Vanuatu
* From: AFP
* January 29, 2010 9:38PM
AN earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck today deep under the sea off the
Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, US monitors said.
There was no immediate tsunami warning.
The quake struck at 8.20pm (2020 AEDT) at a depth of 85 kilometres, the
US Geological Survey said.
Its epicentre lay 62 kilometres northeast of the Vanuatu town of
Isangel and 194 kilometres southeast of the South Pacific nation's
capital, Port Vila.
There was no alert issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning
Centre.
An 8.0-magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami crashed into Samoa,
American Samoa and Tonga in September last year, wiping out villages
and resorts and killing 184 people.