Urgent: 6.1 magnitude quake hits southeast of Loyalty Islands -- GFZ-Xinhua

Urgent: 6.1 magnitude quake hits southeast of Loyalty Islands -- GFZ

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2025-08-16 20:25:16

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted southeast of Loyalty Islands at 1208 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 23.20 degrees south latitude and 170.63 degrees east longitude.