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Hype for the Future 79Q: Guadalcanal 🇸🇧
Introduction The island of Guadalcanal is the principal island of the Solomon Islands, home to Honiara, the capital of the independent nation. Today, the Solomon Islands are set up so that the area of the City of Honiara is included within the Capital District rather than within Guadalcanal Province, while remaining located on the Melanesian island of Guadalcanal. Attractions Within the City of Honiara, the most notable tourist attractions include the Solomon Islands National Museum, the […] -
Remarkably few #landslides in #SolomonIslands following magnitude 7.0 #earthquake on Monday. These small (~50-100m wide) coastal slope failures are on south coast of #Guadalcanal. Imagery from #Planet. Ping @tanyaofmars
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Magnitude Mw 7 #earthquake offshore #Guadalcanal island in #Solomon archipelagos. Small #tsunami waves in Honiara on other side of the island.
There, at the San Christobal trench, the Australian plate is subducting beneath the Solomon arc.
Moment tensor solution ("beach ball" on the map) implies rupture either on a vertical fault or a nearly horizontal one. More data and models will be needed to understand if the earthquake happened on the subduction megathrust or within the downgoing plate.
MT and source function from http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/index.php/en/catalog/earthquake-description?seis=us7000irfb
Sea level graph from https://webcritech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/SeaLevelsDb/Device/1695