A powerful earthquake struck underwater off the Honiara in Solomon Islands, but there was no immediate word of damage and no tsunami alert was issued.

Solomon just escaped from a strong underwater quake which leads to Tsunami.

According to U.S. Geological Survey the quake had a magnitude of 6.9. It was centered 35 miles (55 kilometers) west-southwest of San Christobal in the Solomon Islands at a depth of 22 miles (35 kilometers) under the ocean’s floor.

The good is that, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center expected no major tsunami threat from the quake.

More than 50 people were killed and thousands lost their homes in April 2007 when a magnitude 8.1 quake hit the western Solomon Islands, sending waves crashing into coastal villages.

The Solomons comprise more than 200 islands with a population of about 552,000 people. They lie on the “Ring of Fire” — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim and where about 90 percent of the world’s quakes occur.