#EarthquakeReport #TsunamiReport for #OTD in 2016 M 7.9 #Earthquke offshore of #Bougainville & #NewIreland #PapuaNewGuinea
generated local #Tsunami
felt intensity MMI 9
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Earthquake Report: Bougainville! - Jay Patton online
Early this morning my time there was a large earthquake along the San Cristobal Trench, a segment of a convergent plate boundary formed by the subduction of the Solomon Sea plate eastwards beneath the Pacific plate. There was an M 6.1 earthquake in the slip patch region about a week ago that may have imparted