Huge 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes near Tonga sparking Tsunami warning in Pacific ten months after volcano disaster

A MASSIVE earthquake has struck the Pacific Ocean sparking a tsunami warning amid fears of fresh disaster for the nearby island nations. The 7.5 magnitude tremor rocked the sea around 130 miles south-east of Tonga. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocked the Pacific Ocean Tsunami warnings have been issued for American Samoa, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC). Hazardous tsunami waves from the earthquake are possible within 300 km of the epicenter along the coasts of Niue and Tonga, it added. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said. It comes just months after Most read in News BLADE HORROR Terror probe after cop stabbed to death & another injured by knifeman PIERS MORGAN We’ve become a nation of lazy stay-at-home skivers... Britain is broken RIVER SEX ATTACK Man 'kidnapped woman in busy town centre and tried to rape her at river' ROT IN HELL Evil husband strangled wife, 29, to death just 6 months after she gave birth FLEEING UK We escaped Ukraine for UK – but we’re moving back due to ‘terrible' conditions PHOTOBOMB I'm a time-traveller from 5,000 - I have photographic evidence of the apocalypse