For any WWII History Buffs this was right under New Georgia - near Munda, Vella Lavella, etc.
Fairly significant population in New Georgia, over 50,000.
At the other end of the Solomons chain is Bougainville, where, one night in 1943, an earthquake shook my father right out of his foxhole in one huge jolt. They all thought it was something "the Japs" had cooked up.