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Updated at: 1553 PST, struck deep under the South Pacific Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued, US monitors said. The quake hit at 0946 GMT at a depth of 89 kilometres (56 miles), 324 kilometres east-south-east of Tadine in New Caledonia, the US Geological Survey said. "No destructive widespread tsunami threat exists based on historical earthquake and tsunami data," the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 SYDNEY: A moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. Its epicentre was located 102 kilometres (64 miles) northwest of the capital Port-Vila at 06:42 am (0342 GMT), it said. The quake struck at a depth of 39 kilometres. No tsunami warning was immediately issued as a result of the tremor, which followed a series of huge quakes in mid-October that triggered a region-wide tsunami alert. The Pacific is still recovering from an 8.0-magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami that crashed into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga on September 29, wiping out villages and resorts and killing 184 people.