A closeup of a seismograph machine needle drawing a red line on graph paper depicting seismic and earthquake activity on isolated white background. (INQUIRER FILES/STOCK PHOTO)
MANILA, Philippines 鈥� No alerts for a tsunami threat were raised in the country after a magnitude 7 earthquake hit New Zealand, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Tuesday.
鈥淣o destructive tsunami threat exists based on available data,鈥� said Phivolcs in an advisory.
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According to Phivolcs, the earthquake in New Zealand occurred at around 9:43 a.m.
It had a depth of only 10 kilometers.
The quake鈥檚 epicenter was located southeast off the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.