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Earthquake today: 6.3 magnitude tremor hits South Pacific Island Vanuatu

The quake hit at 9:23 am local time, the US Geological Survey said. Its epicentre was 83 kilometres northwest of the capital, Port Vila, at a depth of 29 kilometres. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no risk of the quake causing a tsunami. Vanuatu sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire," the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where much of the world's earthquake and volcanic activity occurs.