What the records say
- When
- 1 Apr 2007
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.1
- Where
- Solomon Islands
- Coordinates
- 8.47° S, 157.04° E
- Deaths
- 52
- Houses destroyed
- 2500
- Depth km
- 24
2007 Solomon Islands earthquake
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 Mw scale, and 7.8 on the Ms scale. The tsunami that followed the earthquake killed 52 people, injured 40 others and left 60 missing. According to the USGS, the earthquake was recorded around 7:39:56 a.m. local time (UTC+11).
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Bureau of Meteorology issues a tsunami warning for the east coast of Australia after an earthquake in the South Pacific Ocean is detected”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ein Erdbeben mit der Magnitude MW = 8,1 vor der Küste der Salomonen-Inseln löst einen Tsunami aus, der ca. 900 Häuser zerstört und ca. 50 Menschen tötet”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 8,1 sacude las islas Salomón provocando un tsunami que deja un saldo de 112 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page