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GFZ records magnitude 6.16 earthquake in Vanuatu islands
Germany's GFZ said a magnitude 6.16 earthquake struck the Vanuatu islands on Sunday at a depth of 125 kilometers, according to Reuters and the Times of India.
- Times of India is now reporting this
- New headline Was: “Magnitude 7.2 quake near Vanuatu prompts tsunami threat”
- Our desk updated its story
- Still developing
- Stuff is now reporting this
- First reported by Reuters
A magnitude 6.16 earthquake struck the Vanuatu islands on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said, according to a Reuters dispatch and a separate note in the Times of India1,3.
GFZ put the depth at 125 kilometers (78 miles), Reuters reported1. The Times of India did not give a depth, location more precise than the islands, or any account of damage3.
Neither of those Sunday items described injuries, building damage or a new tsunami warning tied to the 6.16 event1,3. Whether the shock was felt on land, and whether it was related to Saturday's larger quake near Vanuatu, was not established in these reports1,3.
On Saturday, Reuters cited the U.S. Geological Survey for a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in waters near Vanuatu2. Stuff reported a second quake in that sequence, a downgrade of an earlier reading to 6.9, and a Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre statement that hazardous waves were possible within 300 kilometers of the epicenter4. Those Saturday details were not repeated in the Sunday GFZ brief1,3.
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How it’s being reported
3 sourcesFirst reported by Reuters
6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Bonin Islands region of Japan
Japan's Bonin Islands quake, with Vanuatu as a secondary item
Leads with a Japan quake and notes separately that GFZ recorded a magnitude 6.16 event in the Vanuatu islands on Sunday morning.
Leaves out Depth, damage and tsunami information for Vanuatu
Vanuatu hit by second earthquake as first downgraded to 6.9
Tsunami threat after Saturday's larger quake and a magnitude revision
Reports Saturday's Vanuatu sequence, including a Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre notice of possible hazardous waves within 300 km of the epicenter.
Leaves out Sunday's GFZ magnitude 6.16 reading
Earthquake of magnitude 6.16 strikes Vanuatu islands, GFZ says
Leads with what someone said.
Same copy also at: Reuters
Where they agree
- Sunday magnitude 6.16 in the Vanuatu islands attributed to GFZ (Reuters and Times of India)