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...just a noise like an underground explosion. The wave came almost instantaneously. Everything that was standing is flattened.' DOROTHY PARKINSON, resident of the Solomon Islands, where a tsunami, triggered by an offshore earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale, killed over two dozen people and forced thousands to flee their homes
Remoteness, now so often a blessing, has come to be a curse for Solomon Islanders living near Gizo, in the country's distant Western Province. The April 2 earthquake, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, and the ensuing wall of water that swept away anything in its path as it reached land, have left a quarter of the area's population without a home. Unlike in Asia's 2004 tsunami, the water has not receded, adding to the locals' distress...
...Public attention and help will only last so long. Even with the aid of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and international charities, the country's far-flung provinces are neglected. Honiara's bureaucrats-foreign and local-don't get out this way. Violence in the capital eventually shows up in the remote islands as severe shortages of food, chronically ill and unschooled children and dire family poverty. This lack of administrative oversight and political will brings resentment, to be sure. But it also allows charlatans to flourish. When natural resources such as fish and trees aren...
...earthquake of magnitude 8.1 hit the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean in the early morning of April 2. More than 20 people have been reported killed in the resulting tsunami. Following is an account provided to TIME via phone from the South Pacific nation...
...About 7:30am on Monday, William Baul had finished his breakfast and was strolling down the main street of Kukundu in the Solomon Islands to meet some friends when he felt the earth pitch and tremble under his feet. The 18-year-old student saw the stilts under a nearby house collapse, and then the small kitchens attached to two others fell into a heap...