No tsunami warning for Solomon Islands after 7.0 earthquake off coast - Reuters

SYDNEY, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Authorities successful the Solomon Islands said nary tsunami informing would beryllium issued aft 2 earthquakes connected Tuesday afternoon, including 1 with a magnitude of 7.0 conscionable disconnected the southwest coast.

The archetypal quake deed astatine a extent of 15 km (9 miles), astir 16 km (10 miles) southwest of the country of Malango, said the United States Geological Survey, which had initially enactment its magnitude astatine 7.3.

A 2nd quake, with a magnitude of 6.0, struck adjacent 30 minutes later.

The Solomon Islands Meteorological Service said determination is nary tsunami menace to the country, but warned astir antithetic oversea currents successful coastal areas.

"People are besides advised to beryllium vigilant arsenic aftershocks are expected to continue," an worker said connected societal media.

Widespread powerfulness outages are being reported crossed the land and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting said successful a connection connected Facebook that each vigor services were disconnected air.

The National Disaster Management Office said it has received reports that radical felt the quake but are waiting for reports of damage.

"People successful Honiara moved up to higher crushed successful the minutes aft the earthquake but immoderate person present moved down," an authoritative told Reuters by phone.

Seismology Fiji said the quake did not airs an contiguous tsunami menace to the archipelago federation astir 2,000 km to the southeast.

Reporting by Kirsty Needham successful Sydney and Akanksha Khushi successful Bengaluru; Writing by Alasdair Pal and Lewis Jackson Editing by Tom Hogue

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