A magnitude 6.1 struck off Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville Island on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, according to the US Geological Survey.
No tsunami warning was issued.
The offshore quake was just one kilometer deep (around half a mile) and centred 96 kilometres southwest of
the town of Panguna, according to a report of Agence France Press.
But quakes of such magnitude are common in Papua New Guinea, which sits on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a hotspot
for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates, the report said.
The quake was also not considered large enough to generate a tsunami.
