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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:05:05 AM PST by lunarbicep
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful undersea earthquake shook Papua New Guinea early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate indications of whether it caused damage, injuries or a tsunami.
The quake had an initial magnitude of 6.8 and struck at 12:20 a.m. in the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea, the USGS said.
Its center was estimated to have been at a depth of six miles, it said.
The region is about 1,440 miles north of Brisbane, Australia.
"......earthqaukes in diverse places"
I'm praying that this does not rival the Indonesian quake of last year - and still praying for those who might be affected by this today.
Some links:
World seismic map:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/
List of M5+ events:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.html
Info for this event:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usgmat.htm
Zoomed map of this event:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/10/150_-5.html
it hit almost 2 hours ago, I'm assuming any resulting tsunami or warnings would have been announced by now. Hopefully thats a good indication. Like yourself, I'll pray for minimum loss of life and damage.
I'm impressed! You beat the USGS site. It still isn't showing there.
Interesting, isn't it? :-)
* this is the greatest site in the world. now you see why I turn to FR first for ALL my information.
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a 6.7 one hit an hour ago
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/150_-5.php
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