The quake was centered 15 miles from Port Olry and hit at a depth of 17 miles at 11:32 p.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Vanuato is about 606 nautical miles east of the Solomon Islands and 933 nautical miles from Australia.
Vanuatu has a population of 280,000 and sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes and volcanoes frequently occur.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for coasts within186 miles of the epicenter but it wast later withdrwan.
No initial reports of damage or casualties were reported.
In November, the Solomon Islanda was hit with a 7.0 earthquake.
It's been responsible for some meaty Sun flares that have registered into the M Sun flare classifications and have largely effected the Pacific ocean and Southern hemispheres here on Earth.
We're not out of the woods, they'll be reverberations over the next few days and this isn't helped by further surface features becoming increasingly active on our Sun also.
Presently Australia is surrounded by earthquakes.
I've reviewed bouy activities at the time of this event and non of the bouys went into event mode, midst, bouy 55012 ENE of Townsville did record some altered wave heights, alls calm Presently.