There have been no tsunami warning and no reports of damage after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake was recorded near Tonga this morning.
The epicentre was located 230 kilometres northeast of Neiafu.
It occured at 6 am local time, and was very shallow at a depth of only ten kilometres.
The director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii, Charles McCreery, says there was no tsunami threat.
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There was no waning for this earthquake. We had a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 for this eathquake, which is well below any threshhold for a warning. The earthquake would have had to be several hundred times larger in terms of energy for there to be any kind of a widespread tsunami warning.
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Charles McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii.
There have been no reports of damage.
