The United States Tsunami Warning Center lifted an alert over the South Pacific on Friday, around three hours after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the region.
“Based on all available data, the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed,” the center said in a report.
The epicenter of the quake was near the Loyalty Islands of the French territory New Caledonia, to the west of Fiji and Vanuatu, according to the US National Tsunami Warning Center. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency also tweeted no tsunami threat was expected for the western US state. New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency said in a tweet that its tsunami advisory also remained in effect, warning that strong currents and surges had the potential to injure or drown people in the water.
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