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No tsunami alert over Vanuatu quake

Evelyn Macairan - The Philippine Star
December 23, 2012 | 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) did not raise a tsunami alert despite a 6.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the South Pacific island of Vanuatu yesterday morning.  

“No destructive Pacific-wide threat exists based on the historical and tsunami data. However, the earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coast located within a hundred kilometer of the epicenter, ” Phivolcs said.         

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