Solomon Islands Earthquake c. 7.7 – 8.0

http://earthquaketrack.com/p/solomon-islands/recent

http://www.foxla.com/weather/earthquakes/222486610-story

The Solomons are the tiny group of islands to the north west of Darwin, Australia.

There will be tsunamis. This is bad.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-...ng&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

ETA: Helix kindly points out that the Solomon's are NE of Queensland.

I honestly struggle with left and right, never mind the compass, so here's a map:

http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/oceania/sb.htm

I was trying to avoid saying they were above Australia and to the right . . .

*Aren't you glad that they don't let me drive?

I'm mostly worried about Papua New Guinea; it's got infrastructure and other issues that magnify incidents like this and make them much much worse.