7.2 magnitude quake hits near Solomon Islands (about 185 mi. WNW of Honiara, Guadalcanal)

Las Angeles Times ^ | January 3, 2010

[UCANSEE2]

A much more ‘informative’ view.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[Spartan79]

Thanks for the link. I hadn’t come across that one, and it is more informative.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[DocRock]

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[ApplegateRanch]

What does the Triangle signify?

The ABCs of the significance is that there are three squares at the root of it.

[Snickersnee]

They have some mighty earthquakes in the Solomons. My father was asleep in his foxhole on Bougainville one night in 1943 and a quake bounced him right out of it.

[Revolting cat!]

We felt it here in Reno! The one hand bandits started spilling silver dollars like there was no Milton Friedman, and I grabbed me a couple of handfuls before the security goons arrived and started filling their own pockets!

[Springman]

How many times have we told you to get up on the “Right Side of the Bed”, not the left.

See what happens!!!

[Wiggins]

My father and his buddy were sitting on a fallen tree during the Guadalcanal Campaign in 1942 when they were knocked off backwards. My dad told told me the story that they did not know what they were hit with until they realized that it was a powerful earthquake rather than Jap artillery.

[tubebender]

Looks like they have had a 5.3 aftershock...

[Quix]

Any stats on how often that occurs?

[The Comedian]

I blame bad loans and drugs...

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[nmh]

That’s a rare event - a direct hit.

Thanks for posting the piture.

[pollywog]

I saw that on the USGS site right after it happened..... that is one sight I watch religously living in So.Calif!

[happinesswithoutpeace]

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2010/pacific.2010.01.04.000918.txt

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Small tsunami: to go with NOAA tsunami report:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/solomonislands/6929251/Two-earthquakes-cause-small-tsunami-in-the-Solomon-Islands.html

[TaraP]

No...But they did say this was an unusual ocurrence

[Quix]

INTERESTING.

THX.

[painter]

Is your father still alive?

[Wiggins]

No. He passed away back in 1993.