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U.S. authorities issued a tsunami warning today in the Pacific, after registering a 5.2 degree magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu, near Australia.
The island of Vanuatu, suffered earthquakes of 7.2, 5.7 and 5.2 degrees on the Richter scale. U.S. officials canceled the alert issued tsuanmi after three consecutive earthquakes.
The warning of the Tsunami Warning Center in the Pacific, part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was issued at 17.39 GMT, just twenty minutes after the earthquake. The three strong earthquakes occurred between 5:14 and 5:45 pm.
The alert had affected the coast of Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, but was canceled shortly after the realization that the earthquake has not caused a tsunami.
The quake, of magnitude 7.2 degrees on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, occurred at a depth of 35 kilometers.
The epicenter was registered in the Republic of Vanuatu, 210 km north-northwest of the town of Luganville, and 340 miles sursuroeste of Lata.
Vanuatu authorities clarified that in the main island has not felt the earthquake and, therefore, hasn’t caused any damage or injury in the area.
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