A tsunami warning has been issued after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific Thursday, 130 miles from Tonga and 300 miles from Fiji, the U.S. Geological Survey reported."It is not known that a tsunami was generated," Reuters quotes the U.S National Weather Service's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. "An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami." The quake reportedly had a depth of of 6.2 miles.
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