CANBERRA, Australia -- A powerful earthquake struck Papua New Guinea late Tuesday evening, triggering a tsunami alert for coastal areas up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away. The U.S. Geological ...

(Reuters) -An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake hit at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), according to ...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.The earthquake’s epicentre was located 116 kilometres south of Kokopo at a depth of 42 kilometres, ...

Locals in coastal areas were ordered to evacuate immediately and see higher ground. Follow Newsweek for live updates.

Also Friday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The U.S. Geological ...

Jakarta: A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia's Central Papua province early Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The earthquake's epicentre was located 28 kilometres ...

(Reuters) -An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake hit at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), according to ...