9 Oct 2009

Further quake off Solomons

2:56 pm on 9 October 2009

A 6.4-magnitude quake has hit the Santa Cruz islands in Solomon Islands.

The quake struck at a depth of less than 10 kilometres about 315 kilometres northwest of the Vanuatu town of Luganville.

The region has been hit by about 20 aftershocks since yesterday's triple tremors measuring more than 7.3