After the Vanuatu has been struck by a stunning 7.2 Quake, authorities at first sent out a tsunami warning but it was later on canceled. The Quake was felt near the coast of the South Pacific island republic of Vanuatu. The United States earlier had issued a tsunami warning for islands New Caledonia, Solomon and Vanuatu.
According to the Tsunami Warning Center, readings of the sea level didn’t show signs of an incoming tsunami.
“If a tsunami was generated, it does not pose a threat to any areas outside the epicentral region,” it said in a bulletin sent out this afternoon.
The eye of the Earthquake was around 300 miles northwest of Port Vila with a depth of 22 miles. The time the Quake struck was 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Local officials frequently updated themselves on the quake and tsunami warning.
Professionals said that Hawaii would be out of danger. Japan, which is the world’s most earthquake prone country in the whole world, according to their local police no serious inquries or damage were done by the 7.2 quake.
“I would think any damage from a quake this size is unlikely,” an official with the police, Shimpachi Higashizato, told the Associated Press.
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