LDS Church Confirms Members and Missionaries Safe after Second Earthquake in Two Days

by | Dec 13, 2016

 

By Moroni Channel Newsroom
Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Elder Viiga Fuimaono, a senior missionary and counsellor in the Vanuatu Port Vila Mission presidency confirms that all missionaries and members are safe after a quake on Saturday, 10 December 2016, the latest of two back-to-back earthquakes.

​“All missionaries are okay,” he said. “No members are reported injured, but we may still not be out of the danger zone. There are still aftershocks here and there.”

Axccording to reports the second quake, registering a 6.9 magnitude, was felt as far away as Australia.  It triggered a fresh tsunami warning that was lifted shortly thereafter. No deaths were reported.

The first earthquake which hit the island nation on Friday was 7.8 in magnitude.

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