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Strong 6.1 earthquake strikes off PNG

1:45PM Thursday June 07, 2007

An earthquake measuring 6.1 struck in the Bismarck Sea off the northern coast
of Papua New Guinea today, but residents on the mainland said there were initial
no signs a change in sea level.

The quake, which was 10km deep, was centred 675km north of Papua New Guinea's
capital, Port Moresby, said the US Geological Survey (USGS) said on its
website.

Residents in the towns of Madang and Wewak on Papua New Guinea's north coast
said they had not felt the quake -- which hit at 10:40am (12.40pm NZT) -- and
that there had been no change in sea levels.

"We have not felt anything and we have not seen any change in the sea," the
receptionist at the Windjammer Beach Hotel in Wewak told Reuters by
telephone.

In July 1998, two undersea quakes measuring 7.0 in the Bismarck Sea created
three tsunamis that killed at least 2100 people near the town of Aitape on Papua
New Guinea's north coast.

In April an undersea earthquake off neighbouring Solomon Islands created a
tsunami which destroyed villages, killing 28 people, and leaving thousands of
people homeless.

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Papua New Guinea and the neighbouring Solomon Islands lie on the so-called
Pacific "Ring of Fire" where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.

- REUTERS

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