A robust 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Solomon Islands on Tuesday, with eyewitnesses reporting violent shaking that hurled televisions and different gadgets to the bottom.

A tsunami warning was issued for an space of the Solomons coast inside 300 kilometres (185 miles) of the epicentre.

“This was a big one,” Joy Nisha, a receptionist with the Heritage Park Hotel within the capital Honiara, instructed AFP. “Some of the things in the hotel fell. Everyone seems OK, but panicky.”

An AFP reporter within the capital stated the shaking lasted for round 20 seconds.

Power was out in some areas of town and folks had been leaving their places of work and fleeing to increased floor.

The USGS revised the earthquake’s magnitude down from an preliminary 7.3.