Date: Wednesday April 1, 2009
Location: Papua, New Guinea
Magnitude: 6.3
Damage/Casualties: None
Related Tsunami/Volcano: None
Gulfnews reported that a strong earthquae struck Papua, New Guinea at 1:55 p.m. local time on Wednesday, April 1. (This is no April fools joke) The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers, and the epicenter was 735 kilometers north of the capital of Wewak, Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea is in a zone where the Pacific, Indo-Australian and Philippine tectonic plates meet. These plates are constantly shifting, often causing earthquakes.
A magnitude 7 earthquake off the north coast of Papua in July 1998 produced a tsunami that killed over 2000 people, but fortunately, no casualties, damage, or tsunamis have been reported since the quake.
Source: Gulfnews
Magnitude: 6.3
Damage/Casualties: None
Related Tsunami/Volcano: None
Gulfnews reported that a strong earthquae struck Papua, New Guinea at 1:55 p.m. local time on Wednesday, April 1. (This is no April fools joke) The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers, and the epicenter was 735 kilometers north of the capital of Wewak, Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea is in a zone where the Pacific, Indo-Australian and Philippine tectonic plates meet. These plates are constantly shifting, often causing earthquakes.
A magnitude 7 earthquake off the north coast of Papua in July 1998 produced a tsunami that killed over 2000 people, but fortunately, no casualties, damage, or tsunamis have been reported since the quake.
Source: Gulfnews
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