No damage was immediately reported. The main threat had been dangerous currents or waves, not widespread inundation, the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center said.

The April 2015 earthquake severely damaged the unique cultural treasures of the Kathmandu Valley. Reconstruction of the area's temples and palaces has largely succeeded, but rural flight has only accelerated in its wake.

A lava-spewing fissure has opened up along Iceland's Sundhnúkur crater row as the Reykjanes peninsula experiences another volcanic eruption.