{"id":27547,"date":"2022-11-22T04:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T04:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27547"},"modified":"2022-11-22T04:59:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T04:59:23","slug":"massive-earthquake-hits-solomon-islands-triggers-tsunami-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/22\/massive-earthquake-hits-solomon-islands-triggers-tsunami-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive earthquake hits Solomon Islands triggers tsunami warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities in Solomon Islands said no tsunami warning would be issued after two earthquakes his just off the south-west coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tsunami warning was issued by the United States Geological Survey after the first, magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck on Tuesday, but this warning was withdrawn soon after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second quake, with a magnitude of 6.0, struck nearby 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The office of the Solomon Islands prime minister reported no major damage to buildings in the capital Honiara, but power was out in some areas of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the roof of the Australian high commission in Honiara had collapsed, \u201cwhich points to likely damage throughout the city\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albanese said all staff of the Australian high commission were safe and they had moved to higher ground because of earlier tsunami concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albanese said the high commission was seeking to confirm the safety of all Australians in Solomon Islands but this was difficult because telecommunications had been disrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Australia had placed a representative in the national disaster response centre to assist with the initial response, adding: \u201cWe have contacted Prime Minister Sogavare to once again indicate Australia stands ready to assist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solomon Islands Broadcasting said in a statement on Facebook that all radio services were off air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Solomon Islands Meteorological Service said there was no tsunami threat to the country, but warned about unusual sea currents in coastal areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are also advised to be vigilant as aftershocks are expected to continue,\u201d an employee said on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quake near Malango was shallow, with a depth of 10km, the USGS said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People reported violent shaking that threw televisions and other items to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freelance journalist Charley Piringi said he was standing outside a warehouse next to a primary and a secondary school on the outskirts of the capital, Honiara, when the quake struck, sending the children running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe earthquake rocked the place,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a huge one. We were all shocked, and everyone is running everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nation\u2019s attorney general, John Muria, posted images on social media of office files spilled from large metal filing cabinets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/11\/8D7CBA0F-B22F-44CE-80F6-8AB8739AE183-1024x568.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/11\/8D7CBA0F-B22F-44CE-80F6-8AB8739AE183-1024x568.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/11\/8D7CBA0F-B22F-44CE-80F6-8AB8739AE183-300x166.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/11\/8D7CBA0F-B22F-44CE-80F6-8AB8739AE183-768x426.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/11\/8D7CBA0F-B22F-44CE-80F6-8AB8739AE183-750x416.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/11\/8D7CBA0F-B22F-44CE-80F6-8AB8739AE183.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honiara got rocked by m7.0 earthquake. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZk6JCbAeY\">pic.twitter.com\/CZk6JCbAeY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Muria (Jnr) \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde7 (@Jnr_Muria) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jnr_Muria\/status\/1594882928810790913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a big one,\u201d Joy Nisha, a receptionist at the Heritage Park Hotel in Honiara, told the AFP news agency. \u201cSome of the things in the hotel fell. Everyone seems OK, but panicky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An AFP reporter in the capital said the shaking lasted for about 20 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Power was out in some areas of the city and people were leaving their offices and fleeing to higher ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Solomon Islands said no tsunami warning would be issued after two earthquakes his just off the south-west coast. A tsunami warning was issued by the United States Geological Survey after the first, magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck on Tuesday, but this warning was withdrawn soon after. A second quake, with a magnitude of 6.0, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[7273,6702,3347,8249,11583,287,9331,7280,5468,12680,6030,11973,3174,6736,5349,8595,8594,5350,9262],"class_list":["post-27547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-anthony","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-capital","tag-children","tag-city","tag-earthquake","tag-facebook","tag-files","tag-journalist","tag-one","tag-prime-minister","tag-school","tag-social-media","tag-solomon-island","tag-tsunami","tag-twitter","tag-united-states"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}