Quakes rock Papua New Guinea; tsunami warning issued

Updated - November 28, 2021 09:08 pm IST

Published - July 18, 2010 07:58 pm IST - Jakarta

Indonesian seismologists issued a tsunami warning after a second 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea late on Sunday.

The latest earthquake, which took place at about 13:35 GMT with its epicentre located 537 kilometres north-east of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics said.

It occurred in the deep of 26 kilometres.

At about 30-minutes earlier, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the area, but the agency said it did not trigger a tsunami. The first quake occurred at the deep of 77 kilometres.

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