Posted on 12/25/2010 6:29:08 PM PST by FromLori
Edited on 12/25/2010 6:32:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean's Vanuatu Islands region early Sunday, prompting a tsunami warning for the area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake struck 135 kilometers (85 miles) west of the island of Tanna, Vanuatu and 1,740 kilometers (about 1,100 miles) off Australia's eastern coast just after midnight local time (8:16 a.m. ET).
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That was 8:16 AM this morning I believe.
6 years to the day
The warning has already been lifted:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/25/tsunami-warning-follows-major-indonesian-earthquake/
The tsunami was 6 inches in height.
Oh thank you lot’s of good size quakes following it...
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php
Oops... wrong link... here’s one from today:
http://www.kitv.com/r/26273385/detail.html
They are reporting this late. The tsunami hit Nov 2. What they are sensing now are only the aftershocks.
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