An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 was recorded off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The data about this on August 16 is reflected on the map of the Helmholtz Potsdam Center (GFZ).

The tremors occurred at 10:59 UTC (13:59 Moscow time), 438 km northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, which has a population of about 283 thousand people.

The earthquake was located at a depth of 103 km. There was no information about casualties or damage.

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On the same day, the General Meteorological Administration of Japan reported that an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 was registered off the coast of the Japanese archipelago of Kazan, which is located about 1.2 thousand km south of Tokyo. The source was located at a depth of 130 km.