Another quake hits the South Pacific

Published: 6:45AM Tuesday October 13, 2009 Source: Newstalk ZB

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There has been another sizeable quake in the South Pacific. This time a 6.4-magnitude quake near the Santa Cruz islands.

US seismologists say there is no immediate warning of a tsunami.

The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres about 355 kilometres north of Luganville, part of the Vanuatu archipelago.

It follows a series of huge quakes last week that triggered a region-wide tsunami alert - although no huge wave eventuated.

Samoa and Tonga are still recovering from the 8.0 magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami on September 29th.

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