WELLINGTON (AP) - A powerful earthquake has struck underwater off the Solomon Islands. There is no immediate word of damage and no tsunami alert has been issued.
The US Geological Survey
says today's quake had a magnitude of 6.9. It was centered 55 kilometers west-southwest of San Christobal in the Solomon Islands at a depth of 35 kilometers under the ocean's floor.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says it expects no major tsunami threat from the quake.
The Solomon Islands is a country of nearly 1,000 islands that lie on the "Ring of Fire" - an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world's quakes occur.
SOURCE (Philstar.com)
