The Solomon Islands sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a arc along the Pacific Ocean rim where many volcanic erupts.
The earthquake was initially classed as an 8.0 magnitude quake by the U.S. Geological Service but has since been reduced to a 7.8 on the Moment-Magnitude scale, according to the Washington Post.
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