{"id":87777,"date":"2025-10-07T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=87777"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:00:01","slug":"6-6-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-papua-new-guineas-lae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/6-6-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-papua-new-guineas-lae\/","title":{"rendered":"6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes near Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Lae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAE: The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a 6.6-magnitude <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/earthquake-jolts-parts-of-kp-province\/\">earthquake<\/a> struck near Papua New Guinea&#8217;s second-largest city, Lae, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mildred Ongige, a city police officer, told Reuters by telephone that the quake was &#8220;very large.&#8221; &#8220;It was a few minutes ago, so we don&#8217;t have any more details on the damage, but we are concerned,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of damage locally.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami warning was issued for the quake, which struck at a depth of 10 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter was 26 kilometers (~16 miles) from the city of Lae, which has a population of more than 76,000 and is located in the country&#8217;s Morobe province, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n<p>The German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) initially put the quake at 6.8 before the agency downgraded it to 6.6.<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea lies on the Pacific Ocean&#8217;s &#8220;Ring of Fire,&#8221; a region known for frequent earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, three people were killed and more than 1,000 homes were destroyed after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck the remote East Sepik province in the country&#8217;s north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAE: The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Papua New Guinea&#8217;s second-largest city, Lae, on Tuesday. Mildred Ongige, a city police officer, told Reuters by telephone that the quake was &#8220;very large.&#8221; &#8220;It was a few minutes ago, so we don&#8217;t have any more details on the damage, but we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4918,8134],"class_list":["post-87777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-earthquake","tag-us-geological-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87778,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87777\/revisions\/87778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}