Solomon Islands — Natural Disaster Report
Oceania · Live status: High (4 active events)
Current situation: 4 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Solomon Islands, with a worst severity of Severe. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Solomon Islands lies along an active subduction zone and experiences frequent large earthquakes and tsunamis; the 2007 earthquake and tsunami killed dozens and permanently uplifted parts of Ranongga island by several metres. The islands are also in the cyclone belt, and heavy rainfall on steep, forested terrain produces landslides and flash floods, as during Cyclone Ita and the 2014 Honiara flash floods. Low-lying atolls in the outer provinces face severe coastal erosion, with several small islands already lost to the sea.
Live map — Solomon Islands
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Active alerts & recent events
Latest earthquakes
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By hazard in Solomon Islands
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
Risk profile
Earthquakes and tsunamis year-round, with very short warning times. Cyclone season November-April. Flash floods and landslides during heavy rain. Coastal erosion and island loss on low atolls. Volcanic activity at Tinakula and Savo.
Official emergency authorities
What this site sees in Solomon Islands
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 68 | Each warning comes from one country own alerting authority, so the scale is that agency scale and is not comparable between countries. Many agencies publish no coordinates, and those warnings are placed at the centre of the country rather than where the weather is - the area name is the real answer. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | 13 | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| US Geological Survey | 7 | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | 1 | Global, but deliberately selective: it alerts on disasters likely to need INTERNATIONAL response. Serious local flooding that a national agency handles alone will not appear here. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | 1 | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
| NASA FIRMS | none | Global, but it sees only what the satellite saw on its pass, and thick cloud hides fire. A quiet day here is not evidence that nothing burned. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) | none | Europe only. It publishes no coordinates at all, so every warning here is placed at the centre of its country and the area name is the only reliable indication of where it applies. |
| NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers | none | These two centres warn for the US and Canadian coasts and for the Pacific and Caribbean basins. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean have their own warning centres, which are not read here. Their routine information statements - the ones that say there is NO tsunami danger - are deliberately not imported, so an empty tsunami list means no threat was issued, not that nothing was checked. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | none | The Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific only. No typhoon in the western Pacific and no cyclone in the Indian Ocean or the southern hemisphere appears here; those come from GDACS and from national services. |
Not applicable here: US National Weather Service — Covers the United States only. It publishes nothing about any other country, so its absence from a country page is not an outage. ; USGS Volcano Hazards Program — United States volcanoes only - Alaska, Hawaii, the Cascades, Yellowstone, California and the Northern Mariana Islands. It says nothing about Indonesia, Iceland, Italy or anywhere else, so its silence about a foreign eruption is not a judgement about that eruption.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Solomon Islands?
There are currently 4 monitored natural disaster events in Solomon Islands. The overall risk status is High. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Solomon Islands face?
Solomon Islands lies along an active subduction zone and experiences frequent large earthquakes and tsunamis; the 2007 earthquake and tsunami killed dozens and permanently uplifted parts of Ranongga island by several metres. The islands are also in the cyclone belt, and heavy rainfall on steep, forested terrain produces landslides and flash floods, as during Cyclone Ita and the 2014 Honiara flash floods.
When is the main natural disaster season in Solomon Islands?
Earthquakes and tsunamis year-round, with very short warning times. Cyclone season November-April. Flash floods and landslides during heavy rain. Coastal erosion and island loss on low atolls. Volcanic activity at Tinakula and Savo. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Solomon Islands?
Official warnings for Solomon Islands are issued by Solomon Islands Meteorological Service. The link is on this page. This site aggregates and reports; it does not issue warnings, and in an emergency the national agency is the authority.
Where does this disaster data for Solomon Islands come from?
Data is aggregated from official sources including USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, ReliefWeb and national agencies. Every event links to its original source, and update times are shown on each record.
Data sources: USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC, ReliefWeb (UN OCHA). See data sources & attribution and methodology. This page does not replace official emergency guidance.