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The US Geological Survey reports that a strong 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea’s northwest just before daybreak on Monday.
The earthquake struck at a depth of 62 kilometers, 97 kilometres (60 miles) from the coastal town of Wewak, according to the USGS, soon after 4:00 am local time.
There was no earthquake warning.
Despite being sparsely populated, the USGS warned that the quake zone’s soft earth could loosen and endanger nearby communities.
The seismology organisation warned that this loosening, or liquefaction, can result in significant ground subsidence and horizontal sliding as well as significant harm.
On the territory of New Guinea, the earthquake was felt in a region a hundred kilometres to the east of the Indonesian border.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that occurred in eastern Papua New Guinea’s remote New Britain area in late February.
