KUALA LUMPUR: A strong earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the Vanuatu Islands at 10.31am on Saturday (Oct 24) but posed no tsunami threat to Malaysia. The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) said in a statement that the epicentre was located at latitude 14.1 degrees south and longitude 165.5 degrees east, about 377 kilometres (km) south of Lata in the Solomon Islands.