Tsunami Alert After 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Pacific Nation Of Vanuatu
Frightened villagers fled to better floor fearing a tsunami while a 7.0-importance earthquake struck past due Sunday simply off the coast of the Pacific island state of Vanuatu.
The violent quake's epicentre changed into withinside the sea simply off the northern bay of the biggest island Espiritu Santo, a few four hundred kilometres (250 miles) north of the archipelago's capital Port Vila.
Kayson Pore, a 22-year-antique scholar from the village of Hog Harbour in Espiritu Santo, stated he changed into searching out crab at the seashore with 1/2 of a dozen pals while the earth shook.
"It changed into very huge," Pore instructed AFP with the aid of using telephone.
"We have been proper at the sea, we have been searching out crab at the coast," he stated
"We ran for our lives after which we r...