Quake hits Papua New Guinea; no damage or tsunami

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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — A strong magnitude-6.7 earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea but there are no immediate reports of damage and no regional tsunami alert.

Chris McKee, the assistant director of the Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby, said the earthquake’s epicenter was relatively deep and some way offshore so it was unlikely to have caused major problems.

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