According to sources it was stated that a 7.5 magnitude quake has struck off the coast of the Pacific island of New Caledonia, prompting warnings that tsunami waves of up to three metres can reach New Caledonia and Vanuatu.



As per report the quake struck at a depth of about 10 kilometre at 4.18 GMT. Meanwhile the US Geological Survey reports states that the epi centre was recorded as 168km east south east of Tadine, a town on France's New Caledonia. Furthermore New Zealand's Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management though tweeted that there was no tsunami threat to the nation's coasts even though the tsunami alert issued for coasts within 1,000km.

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Reports added the USGS also recorded a series of aftershocks, two of them at 5.9 magnitude. New Caledonia has a population of about 270,000 and is part of the Pacific's "ring of fire", where many earthquakes occur.


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