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The quake was registered at a depth of 10 km some 162 km southeast if Tadine, about half an hour after a 6.3 earthquake struck the same region. No tsunami warning has been issued following the powerful jolts in the Pacific.
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The quake was registered at a depth of 10 km some 162 km southeast if Tadine, about half an hour after a 6.3 earthquake struck the same region. No tsunami warning has been issued following the powerful jolts in the Pacific.
A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake was registered in the Pacific Ocean off the Kuril Islands, US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
The earthquake's epicenter lay at a depth of 467 kilometers. The tremors were registered 234 kilometers northwest of the village of Ozernovsky (inhabited by 1,500 people).
There were no immediate reports about casualties or destruction. No tsunami alert has been issued so far.
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The quake hit about 200 km (125 miles) southwest of the town of Rabaul at a depth of almost 40 km, just before 7 a.m. local time (2100 GMT Wednesday).
"We felt the earthquake a bit, but it was not too strong," Constable Roy Michael told Reuters by phone from Rabaul police station.
He said there was no damage in the town, but officers had not yet been able to contact villages closer to the epicentre.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said waves less than 0.3 metre high could be expected on coastlines in Papua New Guinea and neighbouring Solomon Islands. Australia's Tsunami Warning Centre said its coastlines were not at risk.
The quake was initially recorded with a magnitude of 7.3 but was downgraded. At least two aftershocks with a magnitude greater than 5 shortly followed.
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Personnel from the Indonesian Military and the National Police visit a resident whose house was damaged by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake on Oct. 11 at 01:44 in the Supedi Islands in Sumenep regency in East Java.
Personnel from the Indonesian Military and the National Police visit a resident whose house was damaged by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake on Oct. 11 at 01:44 in the Supedi Islands in Sumenep regency in East Java.
An earthquake on Thursday killed three people in Indonesia and rattled hotels where International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegates were attending a major summit, a fortnight after a quake-tsunami killed more than 2,000 elsewhere in the archipelago.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Bali and Java islands in the early hours, jolting residents awake and sending them rushing into the streets.
Some attendees in Bali for the IMF and World Bank annual meetings this week evacuated their hotels as the quake shook the island.
"I felt the quake for at least 30 seconds and I panicked. At first I didn't want to go out but then I decided to leave," said Katharina Sudiyono, an Indonesian attendee at the summit.
Peter Jacobs, head of the Indonesian Central Bank's IMF-World Bank taskforce, said delegates in Bali's Nusa Dua district for the summit were quickly informed of the situation.
Comment: Meanwhile the official search and rescue effort following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has been called off reports Sky News.
The death toll from the powerful 7.5 magnitude tremor and subsequent sea wave on 28 September stands at more than 2,000, with 680 people officially still missing.
However, it is feared there could be as many as 5,000 still buried amid the rubble after large swathes of Palu, on Sulawesi island, were razed to the ground.
Rescue teams struggling to find bodies amid the wreckage have been hampered by mud hardening and remains decomposing in the tropical heat.
Indonesia's government has previously suggested closing parts of the city and declaring them mass graves.
See also: Indonesia earthquake death toll could reach 5,000 as officials count missing
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded near the Kuril Islands on October 9, the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences geophysical service reported.
"At 6:45 p.m. local time, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake occurred with an epicenter 146 kilometers east of the island of Onekotan. The epicenter depth is 56 kilometers," the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk seismic station representative said.
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An Indonesian search and rescue team walk amongst the debris in Petobo. Thursday will be the official deadline for recovering bodies.
An Indonesian search and rescue team walk amongst the debris in Petobo. Thursday will be the official deadline for recovering bodies.
The official death toll is 1,944 but this number could triple as authorities lose hope of finding survivors
About 5,000 people are still missing, feared death, after an earthquake and tsunami hit Sulawesi just over a week ago.
The official death toll stands at 1,944 but officials believe that when casualties from two of the hardest-hit areas of Palu - Balaroa and Petobo - are determined, that number could almost triple.
Those searching the ruins of the villages fear that thousands may have been swallowed up by the ground when the earthquake caused liquefaction, causing the solid surface of the ground to turn to liquid, engulfing homes in the mud.
"Based on reports from the heads of Balaroa and Petobo, there are about 5,000 people who have not been found," said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's disaster agency.
"Nevertheless, officials there are still trying to confirm this and are gathering data. It is not easy to obtain the exact number of those trapped by landslides, or liquefaction, or mud."
Hopes of finding survivors ten days after the double disaster struck the Indonesian island have all but faded, but Thursday will be the official deadline for recovering bodies. After that people will be deemed missing, presumed dead.
There has been a report of at least one death, Frantz Duval, a journalist with the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste, said on Twitter. An auditorium has reportedly collapsed in the northern part of the country, while a local police station has also been damaged, forcing police to release detainees from custody as a precaution.
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Update: Miami Herald reports:
At least 12 deaths have been confirmed following an earthquake in northwest Haiti, after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the island late Saturday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
At least five of the deaths were registered in the the Port-de-Paix area, Jerry Chandler, the head of the country's Civil Protection disaster response unit, told the Miami Herald.
"Search and rescue, and assessment still ongoing," said Chandler, who had teams activated throughout the northwest and in Gros Morne. In some areas, efforts were being stymied by rain, which had flooded streets.
Mondestin said his report indicates that 162 people suffered minor injuries in the northwest region and eight were seriously injured. He said help had arrived from Port-au-Prince including an ambulance, a surgeon, a nurse and medical supplies.
Tremors were felt throughout the country, triggering panic. At least two aftershocks were also registered, according to Civil Protection.
Last month after tremors were felt in Fort-Liberté, Cap-Haïtien and Grande Rivière du Nord, the director of the Bureau of Mines and Energy, Claude Prépetit, said in a press conference that northern Haiti, the west and Nippes regions, were most at risk for a major quake and warned Haitian authorities. A geological engineer whose office monitors seismic activity, Prépetit said Haiti's seismic detection system had recorded about 26 earthquakes between 2.9 and 4.6 on the Richter scale during the first eight months of this year.
"I urge the population to keep calm, following the passage of the earthquake whose epicenter is located in the northwest coast," Haitian President Jovenel Moïse posted on Twitter. "The Brigadiers @PwoteksyonSivil are already in action in the Nord'Ouest. They will be joined by other teams in the following hours to amplify the relief operations.."
Minutes after the quake, reports started trickling in about houses, a Catholic church and the main police station in Port-de-Paix being destroyed or damaged.
"Civil Protection teams are hard at work across the country and especially in the northwest, where two minor aftershocks have been felt," the office said in a release. It confirmed that no tsunami warning was issued in connection with the earthquake.
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Map of shaking intensity around the epicenter of the September 8, 2017 magnitude 8.2 earthquake
Map of shaking intensity around the epicenter of the September 8, 2017 magnitude 8.2 earthquake
Magnitude 8.2 in Mexico involved more fault movement than thought possible
September 2017 saw a pair of weird earthquakes in Mexico. A magnitude 8.2 on September 8 just offshore the state of Chiapas was followed by a magnitude 7.1 on September 19-this time much closer to Mexico City, causing considerable destruction there. While the two earthquakes were not connected, they were the same type of earthquake, which is unusual in the region.
Mexico's western coast is a tectonic plate boundary, where the oceanic plate collides with and dives beneath the continent. That means that earthquakes along that boundary are typically the result of compressive force that squeezes rock to slide up the plane of the fault. Both September earthquakes were the result of stretching, however, which is almost as much of a head-scratcher as finding that part of your car's engine was pulled apart during a head-on crash.
The explanation here is that as the oceanic plate disappears beneath the continent, it sinks downward into the mantle. First of all, the bending of the plate downward causes stretching, just as the skin over your elbow has to stretch. Second, the sinking plate pulls downward as it "hangs" from the part of the plate that is still up at the surface-another stretching force. Occasional earthquakes within this bending, sinking plate can reflect that stretching.
A new study led by the University of Oregon's Diego Malgar found something even weirder, though. Counter to what we thought possible, the fault seems to have broken clean through the entire tectonic plate.
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Earthquakes Canada reports that the quake occurred just off the coast in the area of Mavillette, N.S., near Meteghan, at 10:32 a.m.
Tina Helprin, who lives in Saulnierville Station, said she was sitting in her rocking chair in the kitchen when the quake happened.
"All of a sudden in the distance we heard like a rumble, like if it was going to be thunder and it rolled for like two or three seconds and then there was a loud boom and then it rolled again. It finished with another rumble of about two or three seconds," she said.
Helprin said the entire house shook and her border collie, Cree, ran up to her, "petrified."
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