Just four days after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, the earth shook again in the South Pacific state of Vanuatu. As the American earthquake monitoring station USGS announced, another earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 occurred off the coast of the country on Sunday evening (local time).
The center of the earthquake was at a depth of about 40 kilometers and about 30 kilometers west of the capital Port Vila. No tsunami warning was issued this time.
Twelve dead in Tuesday’s earthquake
The earthquake killed at least twelve people on Tuesday and collapsed several buildings in Port Vila. Because the mobile telephone network also failed, there was initially no information on Sunday about possible further casualties or damage.
The island nation is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire
The island state of Vanuatu, northeast of Australia, with its 320,000 inhabitants, is located on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates collide and therefore earthquakes often occur there.
Vanuatu is also suffering from sea level rise due to climate change.
Source: Krone
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