Earthquake shakes Lae in Papua New Guinea
The US Geology survey hit a 6.6 -magnitude earthquake near Lae, the second largest city of Papua New Guinea.
A Papua New Guinea Government official known Nalu, “very violent” earthquake, the local governor of the local Morobe state of the deceased governor of Lae’nin hundreds of stadiums with hundreds of stadiums hit at 9 o’clock, he said.
The soldiers were lifting Luther Wenge’s coffin to go to a funeral home when he was shot.
“There was a big noise like a flying plane, then the building was trembled for about three minutes,” Nalu told Reuters. He said.
He continued: “There were hundreds of people inside, had capacity. People were in a hurry to get out of the exits and the Deputy Prime Minister wanted people to be calm.”
A Lae City police official Mildred Ongige described the earthquake as “very big”.
However, both officials said that there are no damage details yet.
Another witness, who rejected his name, said that the earthquake had mixed superstitions among the locals.
Before a state funeral planned for Wenge on Wednesday, there were several government ministers in Lae.
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, a tsunami warning was not given after the earthquake that hit a depth of 10 km.
The central base of the earthquake is 26km from Lae, which has a population of more than 76,000 and is in the country of Morobe, the country.
The earthquake was initially reported by the German Geosciences Research Center before revising the agency 6.6.
Papua Yeni Guinea seizes the Pacific’s Fire Ring, a region known for its frequent earthquakes.
In March last year, three people were killed and more than 1000 houses were destroyed after a 6.7 -magnitude earthquake in the Far East sepic state in the north of the country.
