Two 6.8-magnitude quakes strike off Solomon Islands

May 23, 2015 09:23

Two strong 6.8-magnitude earthquakes struck off the Solomon Islands early today, US geologists said, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.

The first quake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles), 205 kilometres from Kirakira and 448 kilometres from the capital Honiara and the second shallow quake struck just over two hours later about 159 kilometres from Kirakira.

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