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Strong earthquake hits Solomon Islands

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From correspondents in Honiara

September 02, 2007 04:14pm

A STRONG earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the Solomon Islands
today and could potentially generate local tsunami waves but a Pacific-wide
tsunami was not expected, seismologists said.

The undersea earthquake struck just after midday local time (11am AEST) at a
depth of 35km, with an aftershock of 4.8 about 20 minutes later, the US
Geological Survey said.

They were centred off the remote Santa Cruz islands, about 675km east of
Honiara.

Solomons officials said there were no immediate indications of injury or
damage, but daytime communications with the remote, sparsely populated area were
fragile.

"The only contact is by high-frequency radio and at this time of day the
radio signal drops," the director of the National Disaster Management Office,
Loti Yates, said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii said in a statement that a
destructive Pacific-wide tsunami was not expected.

But it said there was an increased potential for tsunami waves near the
epicentre.

An 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the western Solomons in April triggered a
tsunami that killed more than 50 people and displaced thousands.

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