The flooding has left about 10,000 people homeless in Honiara alone. <\/p>\n
The US Geological Survey reported the quake was centred about 30km west of the city of Kirakira, at a depth of 63km. <\/p>\n
It believed the likelihood of casualties and damage was low. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
At least seven have been killed in floods in the Solomon Islands, making it one of the Pacific's worst disasters of recent times. <\/p>\n
About 30 people are believed to be missing, and there have been reports of children's bodies floating down the main river in the Solomons' capital of Honiara. <\/p>\n
The floods, from a slow-moving tropical depression threatening last night to turn into a cyclone, have also left more than 10,000 people temporarily homeless in Honiara alone. <\/p>\n
They are clustering in 16 evacuation centres in local schools on high ground in the city of 70,000 people, where the police have also been rounding up looters. <\/p>\n
Aid workers fear outbreaks of diseases from polluted water. <\/p>\n
An old bridge through Honiara's Chinatown has been swept away, carrying a young mother and her baby daughter with it, said the Solomon Times, quoting a witness to the collapse. <\/p>\n
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