About Tonga Islands earthquake of magnitude 6.5
About the island nation of Tonga, which is located in Polynesia in the Pacific ocean, an earthquake of magnitude of 6.4. It is reported by the USGS, reports Reutets.
As told in the service that it happened 500 km West of Tonga. Information on destructions and victims did not arrive. Also was not released warnings about the threat of tsunami.
The government of Tonga is located on 177 Islands of the archipelago. It is bordered to the North by the waters of Samoa in the East of Niue, and to the West of Fiji.