CANBERRA, Australia -- A powerful earthquake struck Papua New Guinea late Tuesday evening, triggering a tsunami alert for coastal areas up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away. The U.S. Geological ...
The quake hit early on Monday morning in a central region of the country's main island of New Guinea at a depth of 35 kilometres. About a half an hour later a second earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 ...
July 22 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 106 km (66 miles), GFZ said.