Pacific / Tonga

Quake off Tonga, no tsunami threat

12:16 pm on 5 November 2019

There's been a magnitude 6.9 earthquake off Tonga.

The 6.9 earthquake was centred 131km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga, the USGS said. Photo: USGS

The quake was shallow, estimated at a depth of just 10 kilometres by the Pacific Tsunami Center in Hawaii.

It was 130km to the west of the Vava'u group and the centre reports there is no tsunami threat.