A powerful earth quake of magnitude 6.4 has hit the coast of the East New Britain region in Papua New Guinea. PNG Weather Services has just alerted the media today at midday today and recorded a 6.9 on the scale before toning down slightly to a 6.4.
The Weather Services mentioned however that no destructive tsunami is expected. Geoscience Australian specialist seismologist Emma Mathews said during a brief phone interview that 6.4 was a tremor powerful enough to level unstable buildings. "It would have been very widely felt," said Mathews. She said while the threshold for a local tsunami was any quake within a depth of 100 kilometres, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that based on all the available data there was no threat of a destructive wave. Matthews added that the tremor could have been felt by people up to 836 kilometres away from its epicentre off the sparsely populated west coast of the island of New Britain, while damage could have been caused within a 67-kilometre radius. There were no immediate reports of damage.
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