Aser Xuma of New Caledonia plays teqball at the Teqball World Championships in Budapest, Hungary December 6, 2019. Picture taken December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Tamas Kaszas

Map locating epicentre of a powerful quake that struck the sea off New Caledonia on Wednesday.

Kanak Politicians and delegates : the President of the northern province of the French overseas Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia, Paul Neaoutyine (5thL), Gilbert Tyuienon (2ndR) Vice-President of the Caledonian government, Rock Wamytan (4thR) former president of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), the President of the Loyalty Islands and mayor of Lifou Neko Hnepeune (5thR) arrive to attend a meeting, the 27th committee of the signatories of the Noumea Accord (agreements), at Hotel Matignon in Paris in Paris, France, March 27, 2018. Stephane de Sakutin/Pool via Reuters

President of the Government of New Caledonia Philippe Germain (C) sits with New Caledonian Senator Gerard Poadja (2ndR) and New Caledonian politician Philippe Gomes (R) during a meeting, the 27th committee of the signatories of the Noumea Accord (agreements), at Hotel Matignon in Paris in Paris, France, March 27, 2018. Stephane de Sakutin/Pool via Reuters

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron take part in a meeting with New Caledonia representatives in the Murat lounge at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, October 30, 2017. REUTERS/Ludovic Marin/Pool

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli (R) of Switzerland gestures. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland reacts. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017 Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland reacts. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli (L) of Switzerland reacts. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland reacts. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017 Referee Esther Staubli (C) of Switzerland shows a yellow card. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland shows a yellow card. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland gestures. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland reacts. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland runs. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Soccer Football – FIFA U-17 World Cup - Japan vs New Caledonia - Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium, Kolkata, India - October 14, 2017. Referee Esther Staubli of Switzerland arrives before the match. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Summer Bifano walks her Shih-tzu mix dogs, Sophie and Rylee, in the parking lot of the College of New Caledonia aflter leaving wildfires in Williams Lake with her husband and four children, at an emergency centre in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Chuck Nisbett

Rob Robinson of Salmon Valley, 26 kilometres north of Prince George, finds an open spot on the bulletin board to pin his notice offering space for wildfire evacuees to camp on his land, at the College of New Caledonia's Emergency Reception Centre in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Chuck Nisbett

NEWCALEDONIA-LANDSLIDES/ - Map of France's New Caledonia locating the zone where mudslides killed at least four people on Tuesday.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Turnberry Golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, June 24, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace during a meeting with New Caledonia authorities on the Noumea Accords (agreements), December 5, 2012 in Paris. The Noumea Accord provides for the gradual transfer of powers from France to the government in New Caledonia, with a referendum after 2014 on whether control of matters like foreign affairs, police and justice should be handed over. REUTERS/Martin Bureau/Pool (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS)

France's President Francois Hollande (R) delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace during a meeting with New Caledonia authorities on the Noumea Accords (agreements), December 5, 2012 in Paris. The Noumea Accord provides for the gradual transfer of powers from France to the government in New Caledonia, with a referendum after 2014 on whether control of matters like foreign affairs, police and justice should be handed over. REUTERS/Martin Bureau/Pool (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS)

France's President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace during a meeting with New Caledonia authorities on the Noumea Accords (agreements), December 5, 2012 in Paris. The Noumea Accord provides for the gradual transfer of powers from France to the government in New Caledonia, with a referendum after 2014 on whether control of matters like foreign affairs, police and justice should be handed over. REUTERS/Martin Bureau/Pool (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS)

Australia Wallabies' coach Robbie Deans (R) talks to IT support personnel Andrew Sullivan during a training session in Nelson, September 29, 2011. Australia will play against Russia in their Rugby World Cup match in Nelson on Saturday. REUTERS/Brandon Malone (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: SPORT RUGBY)

A kagu, an endangered species fully protected in New Caledonia, is pictured inside an enclosure at the Preservation and Research Center in Yokohama, south of Tokyo October 25, 2010. The facility, located at the breeding zone of Yokohama Zoological Gardens, is closed to the public to allow the selected endangered species to breed in the most suitable environment and to study the endangered animals, according to the center. Negotiators from over 190 countries are gathered in Nagoya, Japan for a United Nations meeting to discuss ways to fight rising extinctions of plants and animals from pollution, climate change and habitat loss. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS SOCIETY ANIMALS)

Kurtley Beale of Australia's Waratahs dives over for a try against New Zealand's Waikato Chiefs during their Super 14 rugby match at Waikato Stadium in Hamilton May 8, 2010. REUTERS/Nigel Marple (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: SPORT RUGBY)

Taxidermist Andre Rouillon of France prepares a kagou, a bird from the forest of southern New Caledonia, in his shop in Bordeaux, southwestern France, September 15, 2009. Rouillon, a taxidermist since 1971, prepares between 350 and 400 animals a year for domestic and international clients and has a private collection of some 1,450 animals. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE ANIMALS SOCIETY)

French police stand by as demonstrators holding New Caledonian 'Kanak' flags protest outside of the Paris court house August 24, 2009. The demonstration coincides with the appeals court hearing in Noumea, New Caledonia for the Kanak Union members (USTKE) sentenced to one year in prison following violent demonstrations there in June 2009. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE POLITICS)

French police stand by as demonstrators holding New Caledonian 'Kanak' flags protest outside of the Paris court house August 24, 2009. The demonstration coincides with the appeal court hearing in Noumea, New Caledonia for the Kanak Union members (USTKE) sentenced to one year in prison following violent demonstrations there in June 2009. The banner reads 'No to Colonial Justice in Kanaky'. (FRANCE CONFLICT CRIME LAW)

French police stand by as demonstrators holding New Caledonian 'Kanak' flags protest outside of the Paris court house August 24, 2009. The demonstration coincides with the appeal court hearing in Noumea, New Caledonia for the Kanak Union members (USTKE) sentenced to one year in prison following violent demonstrations there in June 2009. (FRANCE CONFLICT CRIME LAW)

French police surround Corinne Perron (C) French representative to the (USTKE) Kanak workers union as she protests outside of the Paris court house August 24, 2009. The demonstration coincides with the appeal court hearing in Noumea, New Caledonia for the USTKE sentenced to one year in prison following violent demonstrations in June 2009.. (FRANCE CONFLICT CRIME LAW)

India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni (L) celebrates with Sachin Tendulkar after catching out New Zealand's Daniel Flynn on day one of their first test cricket match in Hamilton March 18, 2009. REUTERS/Nigel Marple (NEW ZEALAND SPORT CRICKET)

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) receives traditional presents during a meeting with representatives from France's overseas territory New Caledonia at the Elysee Palace in Paris December 9, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE)

Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue, from the Ile de la Reunion region, poses with Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region, after winning the title in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue, from the Ile de la Reunion region, poses with Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region, before winning the title in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region poses in bathing costume during Miss France 2008 ceremony in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Thirty six participants competed for the title. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region poses in bathing costume during Miss France 2008 ceremony in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Thirty six participants competed for the title. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region poses in dress during Miss France 2008 ceremony in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Thirty six participants competed for the title. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region poses in bikini during Miss France 2008 ceremony in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Thirty six participants competed for the title. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region poses in bikini during Miss France 2008 ceremony in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Thirty six participants competed for the title. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Vahinerii Requillart from the New Caledonia region poses in dress during Miss France 2008 ceremony in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Thirty six participants competed for the title. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE)

Frank Sigala checks a water valve at the Country Meadows manufactured home community in Caledonia, Michigan September 28, 2007. The U.S. subprime crisis has brought communities like this new customer, as young buyers are shut out of the conventional market, but has prevented many retirees - their main customer group - from selling larger homes and moving into manufactured homes. Picture taken September 28, 2007. REUTERS/Nick Carey (UNITED STATES)

Colin Sifferlen of New Caledonia is airborne during a freestyle competition of the Fuerteventura Windsurfing & Kiteboarding World Cup 2007 in Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura, July 26, 2007. REUTERS/Juan Medina (SPAIN)

Colin Sifferlen of New Caledonia is airborne during a freestyle competition of the Fuerteventura Windsurfing & Kiteboarding World Cup 2007 in Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura, July 26, 2007. REUTERS/Juan Medina (SPAIN)

John Afoa (L) of the Blues is tackled by Michael Classens of the Cheetahs during their Super 14 rugby union match at Eden Park in Auckland April 6, 2007. REUTERS/Nigel Marple (NEW ZEALAND)

A Silver Gull preens itself as another rests on rocks near Harbord in Sydney February 13, 2007. Silver Gulls, found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, are a common sight at beaches and other waterways where they have become adept scavengers but can also be found catching natural food. REUTERS/Will Burgess (AUSTRALIA)

Netherlands' Timme Hoyng (L) fights for the ball with England's Rob Moore during their Men's Field Hockey World Cup match at the Warsteiner Hockey Park stadium in Moenchengladbach September 11, 2006. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener (GERMANY)

Make Poverty History and Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof (L) and Bono hold a box of millions of electronic signatures gathered during the Live 8 concerts a news conference at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, July 6, 2005. Aid, debt relief and climate change will top the agenda when leaders of the G8 - the Group of Seven industrialised nations plus Russia - meet for three days from Wednesday in Gleneagles, Scotland. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs KC/TC

New Caledonia's Pierre-Henri Soero walks to the green on the 18th hole during his practice round for the 105th U.S. Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, North Carolina June 14, 2005. The tournament will be played on the historic Pinehurst No. 2 course. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith JLS/KI

Giovanni Trappatoni, coach of the Italian soccer team, addresses the
media after the preliminary round draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Germany at the historic Festhalle in Frankfurt December 5, 2003. A
total of 197 associations plus New Caledonia, have enrolled for the
2006 FIFA World Cup preliminary competition. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Otto Rehhagel, German coach of the Greece soccer team, addresses the
media after the preliminary round draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup
Germany at the historic Festhalle in Frankfurt December 5, 2003. A
total of 197 associations plus New Caledonia, have enrolled for the
2006 FIFA World Cup preliminary competition. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
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