A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.2 was registered today off the coast of Papua New Guinea, without causing damage and not cause a tsunami, seismologists have said.
The American Institute of Geophysics (USGS) located the earthquake occurred at 08:28 AM (22H28 GMT Monday), 125 km west of Arawa, the capital of the island of Bougainville, at a depth of 33 km.
“It was a moderate quake, no damage, no tsunami,” said Lawrence Anton, seismologist at the Geological Institute of Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea, located on the “Ring of Fire” Pacific junction of several tectonic plates, is regularly the scene of an earthquake
