Once or twice a year, on reefs across Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Timor-Leste, and other islands of the southwestern Pacific, the palolo worm tears itself in half. The front portion stays put in the coral rubble where the worm normally hides. The back end ...
A strong preliminary magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck near Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean. The United States Geological Survey said the quake was at a depth of about 70 miles.