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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) said the tsunami
threat had largely passed on Friday afternoon.
Earlier it had warned about the possibility of waves ranging up
to 1 metre above the tide level across 26 locations in the South
Pacific.
Vanuatu retracted a warning to seek higher ground and said a
destructive tsunami is no longer expected, according to the
Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-Hazards Department website.
In the aftermath of the quake, Australia's meteorology bureau
issued a tsunami threat for Lord Howe Island off its east coast
and warned the roughly 450 inhabitants to leave the water's edge
due to waves and strong currents.
This was later downgraded to a marine warning.
"We haven't moved to higher ground and we're probably not going
to," said Damien Ball of the Thompsons General Store on Lord
Howe Islands. "We've been through this numerous times before and
nothing ever comes of it."
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake hit at
a depth of about 38 km (24 miles).
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru, Lewis Jackson in Sydney
and Lucy Craymer in Wellington; Editing by Clarence Fernandez,
Himani Sarkar and Michael Perry)
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