VANUATU SHAKEN AGAIN BY POWERFUL TREMOR

PORT VILA, OCTOBER 28 /SRNA/ - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake on the Richter scale has struck off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, the US Geological Survey /USGS/ said.

The USGS said the quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers, while no other information is available at this time.

The region has been hit by a series of quakes in recent days, including a magnitude 5.8 tremor recorded earlier by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre /EMSC/.

Over the weekend, the region was also shaken by earthquakes of magnitude 6.9 and 6.1 on the Richter scale.