An earthquake with a powerful 8.0 magnitude occurred in the Santa Cruz Islands this morning, causing a tsunami to form with its waves crashing into the Solomon Islands, which are close to Australia.
Last week, seven other earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 6.0-6.5 occurred in the same region.
I called my friends in the center of the disaster. He said that numbers of stores and residences near the earthquake epicenter have been flooded.
In reality we know very little about the long-term earthquake and tsunami activity of the entire Solomon Islands region and so cannot say with any confidence whether this type of event we have seen today is out of the ordinary or how often we might expect it to happen in the future
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