Originally posted by Wikinews. Wikinews content appears under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license except where specified. As these articles are static snapshots of news items that may be later updated, they may not represent the latest or final revision of that article, and posted information may be only preliminary. Powerful earthquake rocks Vanuatu archipelago ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 13, 2023 Original URL: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Powerful_earthquake_rocks_Vanuatu_archipelago An earthquake with the likely magnitude of 7.0 struck the Oceanian nation of Vanuatu at 11:30 PM VUT Saturday (10:30 UTC Sunday). There were no reports of casualties. A tsunami warning for "waves reaching 0.3 to one meter [3.9 feet] above the tide level" along the coasts of Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands issued by the United States Geological Survey after the quake was quickly lifted after none materialized. The French Embassy, Port Vila also issued a statement on its Facebook page urging residents to . 22-year-old college student Kayson Pore, who lives on Vanuatu's largest island Espiritu Santo, told Agence France-Presse: "We were right on the sea, we were looking for crab on the coast," when he experienced a "very huge" quake. "We ran for our lives and then we ran to our homes [...] people were moving to higher ground" to avoid a tsunami. Some residents reported damaged items on social media. Pore said the quake had knocked over and shattered cups in his kitchen, but that he saw no serious damage to homes in his town of 1,000, Hog Harbour. The New Zealand National Emergency Management Agency said they did not expect any tsunamis to affect their coast. The Vanuatuan islands lie along the convergent boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, part of the Ring of Fire along which seismic activity frequently occurs. In November, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the Solomon Islands but did not cause serious casualties or destruction. In 2018, 4,300 people died or went missing in a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Last year's World Risk Report, which assesses the disaster risk of 193 countries, ranked Vanuatu 49th on its . == Sister links == ==Related news== * Magnitude 7.0 earthquake affects archipelago of Vanuatu == Sources == * https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000j2yw/technical * https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/8/a-7-0-magnitude-quake-hits-vanuatu * https://www.facebook.com/AmbafranceVanuatu/posts/pfbid0JsABm3zxePQFn473iBRSKpY7bwe2YJ6TAodm8vVy6BaRmsDZ4gVugBPF1X9dFuFvl * https://www.voanews.com/a/6909363.html * https://weltrisikobericht.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WeltRisikoBericht-2022_Online.pdf .