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No Tsunami Threat After 6.7 Earthquake Near Fiji
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by Big Island Video News
on Sep 1, 2019 at 7:44 am

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STORY SUMMARY

PACIFIC OCEAN - The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reports that there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi after an earthquake occurred this morning in the vicinity of Fiji.

https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Distant-Earthquake-No-Tsunami-Threat-9-1-19-630-AM.mp3

Audio by Hawaii County Civil Defense, issued August Sept. 1, 2019.

(BIVN) – A Magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck in the vicinity of Fiji this morning, but a tsunami was not generated, emergency officials say.

The quake occurred 213 miles southeast of Levuka, Fiji at 5:54 a.m. HST, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.

Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense issued a message at 6:30 a.m., saying that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center confirmed there is no tsunami threat to the Island and State of Hawaiʻi.

A Civil Defense radio message was also distributed.


Filed Under: Hawaii Tagged With: earthquake

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