Three major earthquakes occurred within one hour 10 minutes Thursday morning near Vanuatu in the South Pacific, causing a tsunami warning, and quickly lifted.
Thursday's earthquake near Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
With the first earthquake of 7.8 occurred in the 9:03 in the morning (6:03 p.m. Eastern Time) to 35 km (22 miles) and the epicenter was 295 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of the North-depth Luganville, Espiritu Santo , Vanuatu, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The second quake of 7.7 magnitude, occurred 15 minutes later, at the same depth and a 340 kilometers (210 miles) north-northwest of the epicenter Luganville.
The third and 7.1 earthquakes occurred in the 10:13 am (7:13 p.m. Eastern Time) at about the same depth and 1 280 kilometers (175 miles) north-northwest of the epicenter Luganville.
A moderate 5.7 magnitude aftershock occurred after the earthquake, the third 25 minutes, at the same location, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued, then quickly lifted the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of an earthquake's epicenter regional tsunami warning and surveillance. Data from the first buoy in Luganville, Vanuatu, found a 4 cm (1.6 inches Luganville), Vanuatu, the tsunami waves, said geophysicist Victor Sardina with the Center. Do you have impact? Share photos, video iReport A wave pulse of 10 cm (3.9 inches), he said. "It's like a very small wave appears," he said in a telephone interview from Cable News Network. Now there is no damage or injuries were reported, Sardina said. Following two first big earthquake aftershocks, Sardina said. When there is a big earthquake, they follow the model is thefirst earthquake, the second, third, "he said." Those are obviously related, "he said. In the hotel Le Paris in Noumea, New Caledonia, the capital, the manager told CNN that she felt shocked, but did not see any damage. In the Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu, scua diving, owner Rehan Saeed said that he reports of casualties and property loss to know. "We have the sun out of the wind is quite normal," he told CNN. "Pretty cloudy, but no nothing like that." "We felt the earthquake (my chair, my keyboard movement), but did not take too much notice notice, we live in a week, shaking hands, saying:" John Nichols of Vanuatu hotels in an e-mail.
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