A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Monday, sending a tsunami wave crashing into the country’s west coast and prompting region-wide disaster warnings, officials said.
Sgt. Godfrey Abiah said police in the capital, Honiara, reported a wave several yards high had crashed ashore in the western town of Gizo shortly before communication lines with the region were cut.
Julian McLeod of the Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office said there were unconfirmed reports that two villages in the country’s far west were flooded.
Personally speaking, I’m waiting for Al Gore to come out and start blaming all of this on a “global warming.
Never miss an opportunity to sell the product.
In any event our prayers and thoughts are with this living there, tonight.
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