[GATOR NAVY]

[steveo]

I didn't feel it here.

[HangnJudge]

[HangnJudge]

[steveo]

Looks like UNR detected it:

[HangnJudge]

[Integrityrocks]

April fools! Just kidding.

[dc-zoo]

Fox News reporting it was 7.8.

[Strategerist]

EMSC has revised the magnitude up to 7.9 and the latest PTWC message had 8.1, and considering the "A Team" at USGS isn't there on weekends, I suspect the magnitude was higher than 7.6.

[HangnJudge]

Tsunami report Map URL

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

[BIGLOOK]

7.6 ping.

Watching the news for a seismic sea wave event in the SW islands.

[Strategerist]

Very sparse stuff on google news so far, apparently there was no damage from the quake itself on Guadalcanal, where most of the Solomon Islands population lives.

[HangnJudge]

Link to Google map

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-8.4739+156.9501(M7.6%20-%20SOLOMON%20ISLANDS%20-%202007%20April%201%20%2020:39:56%20UTC)&ll=-8.4739,156.9501&spn=2,2&f=d&t=h&hl=e

[sasportas]

This took place near the famous WW2 "slot" used by the Japanese and American Navies to attack each other. Also near Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Corsair squadron on Munda.

Lots of WW2 history in these islands.

[bnelson44]

Tsunami Advisory Hawaii

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/hawaii/2007/hawaii.2007.04.01.213506.txt

[RightWhale]

Is that where the swarm of earthquakes of the past week have been?

[RacerX1128]

Global Warming! Bush's Fault! Quick, buy carbon credits!

[bnelson44]

TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 003
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER
1243 PM HST 01 APR 2007

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - FINAL TSUNAMI ADVISORY

THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY IS ENDED FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII EFFECTIVE
AT 1243 PM HST.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1040 AM HST 01 APR 2007
COORDINATES - 8.6 SOUTH 157.2 EAST
LOCATION - SOLOMON ISLANDS
MAGNITUDE - 8.1 MOMENT
MAGNITUDE - 7.6 RICHTER

EVALUATION

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE REGIONAL
TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH IT ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE
PACIFIC EXCEPT FOR AREAS NEAREST THE TSUNAMI SOURCE.
BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA THERE IS NO DESTRUCTIVE
TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII AND THE ADVISORY FOR HAWAII IS ALSO
ENDED.

HOWEVER... SOME COASTAL AREAS IN HAWAII COULD EXPERIENCE SMALL
NON-DESTRUCTIVE SEA LEVEL CHANGES AND STRONG OR UNUSUAL CURRENTS
LASTING UP TO SEVERAL HOURS. THE ESTIMATED TIME SUCH EFFECTS
MIGHT BEGIN IS

0635 PM HST 01 APR 2007

THIS WILL BE THE FINAL MESSAGE ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL DATA ARE RECEIVED.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Foxnews has this at 7.8 .....I thought that it was I just saw!

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This might explain it:

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Update time = Sun Apr 1 22:48:04 UTC 2007

MAP 6.7 2007/04/01 20:47:32 -7.133 155.661 10.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS

MAP 7.6 2007/04/01 20:39:56 -8.474 156.950 10.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS

[SevenofNine]

Okay where Godzilla????