288810 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/tsunami-warning-lifted-after-quake-off-vanuat-1329312.htmlA tsunami alert has been lifted after a 6.8-magnitude quake which struck Wednesday off the coast of the Pacific island nation Vanuatu. Port Vila (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Aug, 2021 ) :A has been lifted after a 6.8-magnitude quake which struck Wednesday off the coast of the....2021-08-18T18:32+0200urdupoint-d4058f833cf79a82b12fbd5e1344f42c20210818183200https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/8ee40bac6668-m69-quake-strikes-off-vanuatu-local-tsunami-warning-triggered.htmlA magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning for local areas. The quake occurred at 9:10 p.m. some 20 kilometers north of the village of Port-Olry on the island of Espiritu Santo in the Sanma Province, at a depth of 89.2021-08-18T16:15+0200kyodonews-0c886eec06f3b60c5650c0ba577ce12920210818161500https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/tsunami-alert-issued-after-6-8-magnitude-quake-by-vanuatu-report-2513358Sydney, Australia: A tsunami alert has been lifted after a 6.8-magnitude quake which struck Wednesday off the coast of the Pacific island nation Vanuatu. The earthquake was detected at a depth of 94 kilometres (56 miles) and was about 340 kilometres northwest of Port Vila, according to the US Geological Survey.2021-08-18T15:33+0200ndtvnews-36cbe4bc01d6927215a11cd560364bf320210818153300https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/high-magnitude-earthquake-hits-vanuatu-3578669A high-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific island of Vanuatu on Wednesday. An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit the coast of Port-Olry, Vanuatu, the US Geological Survey said in a brief statement. The earthquake triggered a tsunami warning, but it was later canceled, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.2021-08-18T15:25+0200yenisafak-en-5ee08b21a5d9a400b15623f2f1469e0420210818152500