Sydney (Australia), Jan 3 (EFE) .- An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook the waters northeast of Papua New Guinea on Friday without the authorities having initially reported damage or tsunami alert.
The earthquake occurred at 12:47, local time (01:47 GMT), 62 kilometers northwest of Rabaul, in the province of New Brittany Eastern, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS), which records the seismic activity in the world.
The hypocenter of the tremor was 10 kilometers deep under the seabed.
Papua New Guinea sits on the so -called Pacific Fire Ring, an area of great seismic and volcanic activity that is shaken a year for about 7,000 tremors, most of them moderate.
On February 26, 2018, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 caused more than a hundred dead and more than half a million victims in the Lands Altas region of Papua New Guinea. EFE
