WELLINGTON (New Zealand) - A MAGNITUDE 6.5 earthquake has rocked the sea floor off the coast of the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu, but there are no immediate reports of injury or damage.
The quake about 2pm local Vanuatu time (11am Singapore time) on Monday, was 85km below the earth's crust, according to the US Geological Survey's Web site.
The tremblor, 200km southwest of Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, did not trigger a tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
The Vanuatu island chain sits along the so-called Ring of Fire, a fault line through the Pacific that triggers earthquakes and volcano eruptions stretching from Chile in South America through Alaska and down through Japan past Vanuatu to Tonga. -- AP
