Tsunami alert issued after New Caledonia earthquake
09:40, 5 December 2018YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS. A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck close to New Caledonia in the Pacific, with a tsunami alert issued for coasts within 1,000km, BBC reported.
Tsunami waves have now been observed, monitors reported.
The quake struck at a depth of 10km at 04:18 GMT, with its epicentre 168km east-south-east of Tadine, a town on one of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands.
New Caledonia is part of the Pacific's "Ring of Fire", where many earthquakes occur.
It is a special collectivity of France with a population of about 270,000.
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