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Magnitude Mw 7 offshore island in archipelagos. Small 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 geoscope.ipgp.fr/index.php/en/
Sea level graph from webcritech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Se

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