AN seism with a ratio of 6.4 rocked the Loyalty Islands location of the South Pacific today, the US Geological Survey said.

The quake, centralised 86 kilometres south-west of state and 177 kilometres north-east of the Loyalty Islands in the land region of New Caledonia, struck at 4.33am AEST at a depth of threesome kilometres, it said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no danger of a wave and there was no unmediated reports of damage.

But it said that "earthquakes of this filler sometimes create topical tsunamis that crapper be devastating along coasts settled within a cardinal kilometres of the seism epicentre".

An 8.0-magnitude seism in the nearby king Islands in Apr 2007 triggered a wave that killed more than 50 grouping and displaced thousands.

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