The quake hit 88 km southwest of Wewak, the USGS said, a town of 25,000 people that serves as the capital of Papua New Guinea's East Sepik province. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit northern Papua New ...

At least five people were killed and an estimated 1,000 homes destroyed when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea, officials said on March 25 as disaster crews poured into the region.

Witnesses said people required medical attention and dozens of houses collapsed Korogu resident Colles Pinga said three houses had collapsed in his village, north of the epicentre The Natural Disaster ...