6.5 quake shakes sea floor near Vanuatu
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has rocked the sea floor off the coast of the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, but there are no immediate reports of injury or damage.
The quake about 2 p.m. local Vanuatu time (0300 GMT) Monday, was 53 miles (85 kilometers) below the earth's crust, according to the US Geological Survey's Web site.
The tremblor, 125 miles (200 kilometers) southwest of Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, did not trigger a tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
The Vanuatu island chain sits along the so-called Ring of Fire, a fault line through the Pacific that triggers earthquakes and volcano eruptions stretching from Chile in South America through Alaska and down through Japan past Vanuatu to Tonga. - AP
Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/118859/65-quake-shakes-sea-floor-near-Vanuatu
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