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The earthquake killed 10 people, and 6 people remain listed as missing, [1] [2] with at least 15 injured. [3] [17] Residents of Solomon Islands and other surrounding islands moved to higher ground causing major traffic jams in the capital, Honiara. Many other Pacific countries ordered precautionary evacuations, even countries not on the warning ...
The Australian Woodlark, Solomon Sea and Pacific Plates are converging at a rate of 97 mm/yr. [1] The earthquake was a result of interaction between the Australian and Pacific Plates along a subduction zone. Subduction of the Australian Plate has also given rise to volcanoes in the region. This region of the world lies along the Pacific Ring of ...
The 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake took place on 2 April 2007, near the provincial capital of Gizo on Ghizo Island, in the Solomon Islands.Its magnitude was estimated at 8.1 on the M w scale, and 7.8 on the M s scale.
A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake jolted the Solomon Islands Tuesday afternoon, overturning tables and sending people racing for higher ground. There were no immediate reports of widespread ...
A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, on November 22, in the south west region of Malango.An initial tsunami warning was lifted by the ...
Earthquakes are common in this region, with little or no fatalities. This earthquake is tied with three other magnitude 7.8 earthquakes for the second largest earthquake of 2016. [4] On 17 December, Solomon Islands would be rattled again by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake, this time 54 km east of Taron, Papua New Guinea. [5]
The earthquake was the largest in a series of quakes to strike the Solomon Islands over the preceding days. [3] The 7.1 mainshock was preceded by a 6.6 magnitude foreshock some 48 minutes previous. As many as 1,000 people were left homeless on the island of Rendova after the earthquake and tsunami destroyed approximately 200 homes.
A tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre covering Vanuatu, Fiji, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna, [34] with waves expected to reach 1 m (3 ft 3 in). [43] This was lifted on 14:14 VUT. [28]