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7.6 earthquake hits near Solomon Islands
13 April 2014
An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 has hit near the Solomon Islands, but there have been no reports of major damage or casualties.
The undersea quake was registered at a depth of 29km (18 miles), 100km (60 miles) south-east of Kira Kira.
A tsunami warning issued for the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia was later cancelled.
The Solomon islands suffered severe flash floods just over a week ago in which at least 16 people died.
Strong waves were reported after the earthquake struck at 07:14 on Sunday (20:14 GMT Saturday).
Dorothy Wickham, who lives in the capital Honiara, told the Agence France-Presse news agency that people had been warned to stay away from low-lying areas, as high seas battered the coast. BBC News
Nicaragua shaken by second 6.6 earthquake
12/04 07:12 CET
Just as residents of Managua were clearing up the damage from an earthquake on Thursday, a second earthquake struck Nicaragua on Friday.
Measuring 6.6 on the richter scale it could be felt as far away in San Jose in Costa Rica.
The epicentre was 24 km south of Granada near the Pacific coast, the depth of it suggested that a tsunami was unlikely.
The government had evacuated buildings and schools were closed on Friday as thousands of aftershocks continued to rattle the country, which helped avoid many injuries when the second quake struck.
The government raised the number of those injured in Thursday’s quake from 23 to 200 and one person was reported to have died. Euronews
Other Ring-of-Fire earthquakes
| Magnitude | mb 4.9 |
| Region | MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES |
| Date time | 2014-04-12 21:50:51.0 UTC |
| Location | 9.67 N ; 125.37 E |
| Depth | 40 km |
| Distances | 288 km N of Davao, Philippines / pop: 1,212,504 / local time: 05:50:51.0 2014-04-13 177 km SE of Cebu City, Philippines / pop: 798,634 / local time: 05:50:51.0 2014-04-13 13 km SW of Mat-i, Philippines / pop: 3,795 / local time: 05:50:51.0 2014-04-13 |
| Magnitude | M 4.8 |
| Region | SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA |
| Date time | 2014-04-12 12:32:53.5 UTC |
| Location | 9.69 S ; 118.01 E |
| Depth | 10 km |
| Magnitude | mb 5.0 |
| Region | BOUGAINVILLE REGION, P.N.G. |
| Date time | 2014-04-12 15:46:27.0 UTC |
| Location | 7.16 S ; 154.96 E |
| Depth | 15 km |
