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(CNN) -- An 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands in the
South Pacific on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami that killed five people but
didn't threaten the wider region.
Four elderly people and one child died after the roughly 1-meter (3-feet)
high wave hit the Santa Cruz Islands, an eastern region of the Solomon
Islands, said Augustine Bilve, a director at a hospital in Lata, the main
town in the area.
The strong waves appeared to have caused damage and disruption at the local
airport and nearby villages.
Bilve said that some patients were being relocated, but the hospital was
intact.
"Our staff in Temotu province felt the quake and within five minutes there
were a number of wave surges, which flooded the runway there," said Andrew
Catford, the program director in the Solomon Islands for the humanitarian
group World Vision.
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