A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook off the coast of the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning that was later lifted. No significant damage was reported.
New Caledonia is a French territory in South Pacific with a population of about 270,000. It is a part of the Pacific's "Ring of Fire", where many earthquakes occur.
The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km, with its epicentre 168 km east-south-east of Tadine, a town on one of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands, the BBC reported. "Based on all available data, the tsunami threat from this earthquake has now passed," the US-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said in a statement.