An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 shook the oceanic country Papua New Guinea, located in the South Pacific, on Saturday, a movement that does not imply a tsunami risk for the coasts of Chile.
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake was recorded at 9:46 local time on Sunday (23:46 GMT and 19:46 Chilean time today), with an epicenter located 66 kilometers east of the city of Kainantu and a depth of 61 kilometers.
Minutes later, in our country, the National Emergency Office (Onemi) reported that both the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and the local Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA) were evaluating the earthquake and its possible consequences.
SHOA indicates that once the modeling and analysis process has been completed, due to a 7.7 earthquake in Lae, Papua Nuva Guinea, they do NOT meet the necessary conditions to generate a tsunami on the coast of Chile
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After a process of modeling and analysis, the SHOA indicated that the earthquake “DOES NOT meet the necessary conditions to generate a tsunami on the coast of Chile”.
Nearly an hour after the quake, another tremor, measuring 5.0, was recorded near the same Papuan region.
Hours before, two earthquakes of 6.2 shook the province of Papua, one of the easternmost in Indonesiaas reported by the USGS, which records seismic activity around the world.
The service located the hypocenter of both earthquakes, which occurred in an interval of 35 minutes, about 260 kilometers east-southeast of the island of Biak, and at a depth of 18 kilometers and has no evidence that they have caused deaths or economic damage of any kind. Type.
Both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, which share the same island, sit on the so-called Pacific Ring of Firean area of great seismic and volcanic activity with 127 active volcanoes in which about 7,000 earthquakes are recorded each year, most of them moderate.
In 2018, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 shook the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and caused a tsunami that caused more than 2,000 deaths and 200,000 displaced people in the towns of Palu and Donggala.