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No Tsunami Threat to Hawai‘i After 7.0 Loyalty Islands Quake

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PC: background image courtesy USGS.

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi following a preliminary magnitude 7.0 earthquake reported at 2:42 p.m. HST on Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 Southeast of the Loyalty Islands.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a statement saying that based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi.

The Loyalty Islands are an archipelago located in the French territory of New Caledonia.

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The USGS reports that the quake was located:

  • 67.8 mi ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia; 
  • 123.3 mi ESE of Wé, New Caledonia;

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