Firing Up the Repeaters
This is Ground Control to Major Tom.
Strong Quakes Hit Solomon Islands
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Two strong earthquakes damaged villages and triggered landslides in remote parts of the Solomon Islands on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, police said.
The magnitude 7.2 and 6.5 quakes struck close together around 9:48 p.m. EST and occurred around 55 miles south-southeast of the small South Pacific island of Gizo, the U.S. Geological Survey and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centres said.
“The reports say villages and houses have been damaged by landslides rather than tsunamis, but we do not have any confirmation of deaths or injuries,” a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Office told Reuters from Honiara.
The quakes occurred at depths of between 33 km (20.5 miles) and 36 km and Gizo police earlier said possible tsunami waves struck uninhabited Tetepare island, home to a nature reserve.
Landslides were triggered on Tetepare and nearby Rendova island, in Western Province, which was a World War Two Patrol Boat base used by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, disaster office spokesman Brian Tom said.
Fitty-five klicks from Giza er Gizo. Coming in from London from over the pole, 33 kilos deep.
Could we ever feel much finer?
Twin quakes, and landslides on TeT Pair island – where Captain Willard Captain Kennedy’s PBR docked.
Oh Oh trouble in nearby Rend Ova!
And don’t even think it . . . l.d. was seven thousand miles away. At least. Both hands in plane sight.
Solomon and JFK featured prominently in our preceding post of, hey wouldja lookit that, January 3.
(Actually posted late night Jan. 2.)
Last outing we ended with Haggai and, trusting god isn’t offended and you aren’t bored, we repeat.
In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty. (Haggai 2)
