7.6-magnitude earthquake shakes Papua New Guinea

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake happened around 9:46 a.m. Sunday. Its epicenter was about 41 miles east of Kainantu, in the Papua New Guinea highlands, according to the USGS.

The full extent of the damage, as well as whether there were any casualties, was not immediately clear.

Debris lies strewn across a highway after a landslide near the town of Kainantu, following a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in northeastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday.Renagi Ravu / via APJana Pursley, a geophysicist with the USGS, said damage could be moderate to heavy, but no major population centers appeared to be in the path of the temblor’s deadliest waves.

“This could definitely be a damaging earthquake,” Pursley said.

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