Strong earthquake hit PNG

A strong Earthquake just hit central land of Papua New Guinea, luckily the earthquake happen in the middle of the jungle with hundreds miles of pristine tropical rainforest (jungle) in all direction. Although some jungle inhabitant (monkeys, and tree kangaroo) could seriously injured due to falling of the tree during their sleep.

Earthquake details as follow :

Magnitude (Richter) : 7.6
Moment Magnitude (MMI) : IV-V Merauke (Light-Moderate), II-III Jayapura (Weak)
Depth (AMSL) : 96 Km
Position : 6.09° S 142.72° E
Time : 25022018_174446Z

At the time of this writing there is already 3 aftershock with each of them came in ≥ 5.0 Richter scale, and the source is moving slightly westward

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Strong earthquake hit PNG