Magnitude-7.8 and 7.3 earthquakes struck the Santa Cruz Islands at 11:03 a.m. New Zealand time triggering tsunami warnings for several nations in the region but was later canceled.
The quakes hit at 11:03 a.m. New Zealand at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), about 260 kilometers south of Lata on the Santa Cruz Islands [...]
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