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The United States Geological Survey said that an earthquake of magnitude 7.4 rattled Tonga on Thursday(May11). The US Tsunami warnings system said there was no tsunami warning after the earthquake. The USGS stated that the quake hit at 1602 GMT about 100 kilo meters off Tonga’s remote volcanic island of Niuatoputapu at a depth of 210 kilometres. Gary Vite, chief ...

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