Strong quake hits off Papua New Guinea
CANBERRA. July 25. KAZINFORM A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea's island of Bougainville Saturday morning but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualty yet, seismologists said, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The quake, which struck at 11:42 a.m. local time (01:42 GMT), was about 80 kilometers west of Arawa city at a depth of 65 kilometers, according the U.S. Geological Survey.
"At this stage we have not received any reports of any damage," a spokesman for PNG's national earthquakes center said.
"We have not had any report of such activity as a tsunami, but normally (with) earthquakes of about 6.2 we rarely anticipate tsunamis along our coastline," he added, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chianview.cn for full version.