The Pacific Ring of Fire simultaneously spoke

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that on January 4, two earthquakes of 6.5 and 7.2 magnitude near Solomon Islands in the South Pacific were occurred.

According to USGS, the magnitude 7.2 earthquake has an epicenter about 30 kilometers deep, about 103 kilometers from Gizo - Solomon's second-largest town - southeast. And a strong 6.5-magnitude match had a 10km deep epicenter, 143km from Gizo.

Although there was no tsunami warning after two earthquakes in Solomon, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that earthquakes with this intensity sometimes produced local tsunamis that could devastating coastline a few hundred kilometers from the epicenter.

In the morning of January 4, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake also occurred in Mindanao (southern Philippines). Earlier, another earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 on the epicenter of 104km deep shook many cities on the western coast of Peru.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of ​​frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions surrounding the Pacific basin. It is shaped like a horseshoe ring and is about 40,000 km long. It is associated with a continuous sequence of ocean channels, archipelagic arcs, volcanic ranges and / or the movement of tectonic plates.