Vanuatu hit by 7.0 quake

Stuff NZ
Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:56 UTC
Map

© USGS
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, was 10km deep. It was later revised to magnitude 7.
A large earthquake has hit near Vanuatu, but initial fears that it could generate large tsunami waves appear to have passed.

The quake was 10km deep and hit shortly after 7.30am, NZ time. It had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, but that had since been revised to 7.0.

There was no threat to New Zealand, the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially said waves of between 1m and 3m above the tide level were possible along some coasts of Vanuatu.

Any waves were forecast to be under 30cm for New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
© USGS
A map from USGS shows the locations of 2016's five quakes measuring magnitude 7 or more. Friday's quake in Vanuatu is shown in blue.
By 9.30am NZ time the Center had updated its information to say the tsunami threat had mostly passed.

The quake was centred about 95km southeast of the town of Santo, USGS said. A spokesman at Vanuatu's Bauerfield International Airport in Port Vila said the quake did not feel major. "It was just a small one," he said.

The quake had not disrupted flights and the spokesman said he was not aware of any damage.

Friday's quake was the fifth this year measuring magnitude 7 or more. The biggest quakes were in Ecuador, on April 16, and Sumatra a month earlier. Both measured magnitude 7.8. More than 650 people died in the Ecuador quake.
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Is that first shot from space, showing
underground ridging, maybe fault lines?

yes, i think so... that whole area has some major fault lines running around it, and some of the deepest quakes on record (around 700km)...

Interesting, the ring-of-fire layout.

Then it goes across continents, like in Russia and
India and Saudia Arabia..do you think that indicates
a drift separation, engulfed by oceans, in a few
billion years time?

Another one. Dang...The ring is sure acting up

Didn't they do a Survivor season there?

Yes I am trying to remember which one 8,9 or 10 I think..

Thought so

i think that were somewhere else at one time and collided to where they are now... the only one i hear that is separating is middle america, where they think in a few million years will split apart...
http://www.livescience.com/37529-continental-drift.html

Fascinating site.