Earthquake Information

April 28, 2016 (19:33:24 UTC)

Quake Location

Magnitude 7.0 Vanuatu

A major earthquake struck in the southwest Pacific Ocean at a depth of 27 km beneath the island of Melampa in the Vanuatu island chain.

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