Top Stories // Thursday, April 16, 2009 Papua New Guinea rocked by strong quake: USGS Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 16-Apr-2009 09:51 hrs Meteorological officials check a seismograph screen in Jakarta. A quake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck the remote Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville, the US Geological Survey has said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. A quake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck the remote Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. . The quake hit at 10.43am local time (0043 GMT) 153 kilometres (95 miles) west-southwest of Arawa, in central Bougainville, at a depth of 44 kilometres, the USGS said. . "At this stage no information has been received of any damage or tsunamis, that sort of thing," said local seismologist Lawrence Anton. . "I don't think we would be expecting anything serious like a tsunami or big damage," Anton told AFP. . The tremor was a "typical interaction of the Solomon plate and the Pacific plate", he added. . Papua New Guinea sits on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," where continental plates meet. The region is frequently rocked by earthquakes. — AFP A quake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck the remote Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. . The quake hit at 10.43am local time (0043 GMT) 153 kilometres (95 miles) west-southwest of Arawa, in central Bougainville, at a depth of 44 kilometres, the USGS said. . "At this stage no information has been received of any damage or tsunamis, that sort of thing," said local seismologist Lawrence Anton. . "I don't think we would be expecting anything serious like a tsunami or big damage," Anton told AFP. . The tremor was a "typical interaction of the Solomon plate and the Pacific plate", he added. . Papua New Guinea sits on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," where continental plates meet. The region is frequently rocked by earthquakes. — AFP A quake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck the remote Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. . The quake hit at 10.43am local time (0043 GMT) 153 kilometres (95 miles) west-southwest of Arawa, in central Bougainville, at a depth of 44 kilometres, the USGS said. . "At this stage no information has been received of any damage or tsunamis, that sort of thing," said local seismologist Lawrence Anton. . "I don't think we would be expecting anything serious like a tsunami or big damage," Anton told AFP. . The tremor was a "typical interaction of the Solomon plate and the Pacific plate", he added. . Papua New Guinea sits on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," where continental plates meet. The region is frequently rocked by earthquakes. — AFP A quake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck the remote Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. . The quake hit at 10.43am local time (0043 GMT) 153 kilometres (95 miles) west-southwest of Arawa, in central Bougainville, at a depth of 44 kilometres, the USGS said. . "At this stage no information has been received of any damage or tsunamis, that sort of thing," said local seismologist Lawrence Anton. . "I don't think we would be expecting anything serious like a tsunami or big damage," Anton told AFP. . The tremor was a "typical interaction of the Solomon plate and the Pacific plate", he added. . Papua New Guinea sits on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," where continental plates meet. The region is frequently rocked by earthquakes. — AFP ----------- |