According to reports, A 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday caused damage to buildings in and around the coastal town of Madang, according to locals there. When the earthquake was originally discovered, the US Geological Survey first issued a tsunami warning but later stated that the threat “had since passed”.
It did state that there would still be “minor sea level changes in some coastal places.” Several sections of Papua New Guinea had power outages and building damage, while Port Moresby, the nation’s capital, which is around 300 miles that is 480 kilometres away, also experienced some shaking.
Images and video of the destruction at a university in the eastern highland town of Goroka showed that during the earthquake, huge fractures emerged in the walls and window awnings fell.
Residents of Lae and Madang, which are the closest to the epicentre, claim that the shaking was far more violent than previous quakes. The atmosphere was “very strong, everything was like sitting on a sea — simply floating”, as per Hivi Apokore, a staff member at the Jais Aben Resort adjacent to Madang.
The USGS reports that the earthquake took place at a depth of 61 kilometres, 67 kilometres (40 miles) from the town of Kainantu (38 miles). Papua New Guinea regularly suffers earthquakes as a result of its placement on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
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