: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled the Pacific nation of Tonga on Monday, the United States Geological Survey said, but there was no threat of a tsunami.
The quake struck at 9:47 am local time from a depth of about 112 kilometres , according to the USGS, and was centred in a patch of ocean about 198 kilometres north of Tonga’s capital Nuku’alofa.It struck near the sparsely populated islands of Kao and Tofua, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said “there is no tsunami threat from this earthquake”.
Local resident Mary Lyn Fonua who was already at work in Nuku’alofa, told AFP the two-storey building she was in swayed strongly for a few seconds.Earthquakes are common in Tonga, a low-lying archipelago home to around 100,000 people that straddles the seismic Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire is an arc of intense tectonic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.Gaza officials say dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Rafah displacement centre
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