A powerful earthquake recorded in Papua New Guinea
Moscow. March 4. INTERFAX.RU — an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 has occurred in the waters of the Solomon sea, approximately 43 km South of the southern tip of the island of Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), according to the Altai-Sayan branch of the Geophysical service of the Unified Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to the operational processing of the Altai-Sayan branch of Geophysical survey, the epicenter was recorded in 05:58 GMT on Saturday, the earthquake had coordinates -7.25 degrees South latitude and 155.71 degree East longitude and was approximately in the middle of the Strait separating the Islands of Mono and Shortland.
Intensity of concussions in epicentre of seismoisolation is assessed as “devastating”.