Taking to its official Twitter handle, NCS said that the earthquake occurred at 3:49 am IST and struck West North West of Honiara at a depth of 95 kilometres.
Honiara [Solomon Islands], January 10 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 jolted 77 km SE of Kirakira, Solomon Islands at 23:01:12 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said.