There is no tsunami threat for the Solomon Islands. Photo credit: www.adaderana.lk.
There is no tsunami threat for the Solomon Islands. Photo credit: www.adaderana.lk.

The Solomon Islands Meteorological Services has issued a No tsunami threat to the Solomon Islands after an undersea earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred this afternoon.

The undersea earthquake happened near 1-hundred and thirty-one kilometre west-southwest of Arawa, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.

The MET services says no further updates will be issued unless the situation changes.