Papua New Guinea earthquake: Strong tremor off New Britain islandA strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea's New Britain island, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. Hazardous tsunami waves were forecast for some coastlines but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck some 162km (100 miles) from Rabaul, on New Britain island, at 07:25 on Friday (21:25 GMT Thursday). Dellie Minding, a receptionist at the Rabaul Hotel in the east of New Britain, told Reuters news agency the earthquake had been felt, with many guests running outside, but there had been no damage. "We felt the earthquake, everything was moving so we went out of the building," the receptionist told Reuters.

Source: VietNamNet News March 30, 2018 02:48 UTC