Sunday 20th April, 2014. By: Radio Australia A magnitude-7.5 earthquake has again struck off Papua New Guinea, prompting a tsunami warning to be briefly issued for the Pacific Island nation and neighbouring Solomon Islands. The U-S Geological Survey says, the quake struck 68 kilometres south-west of Panguna on the island of Bougainville. The U-S-G-S, revising down the magnitude from an initial 7.8, said the quake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres. There were no immediate reports of damage. A tsunami warning was issued for P-N-G and the Solomon Islands by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, but it later cancelled the alert. The Pacific Warning Centre said there was no threat to neighbouring Australia or other countries across the Pacific Ocean. A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck of Bougainville earlier on Saturday, but there were no reports of damage. At least six strong tremors have hit near Bougainville in the past week, including a powerful magnitude-7.5 quake on April 14 that triggered a local tsunami alert. Meantime, a local resident from Arawa and business woman, Pamela Dasiona, posted on her facebook page, the earthquake was bigger the earlier one. She says some items in the house fell off the cupboard and broke. Mrs. Dasiona says, the earthquakes are happening frequently and was not safe for them anymore.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:21:13 +0000