Quakes hit Papua New Guinea, tsunami warning lifted
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Two big earthquakes of around magnitude 7 struck Papua New Guinea on Sunday but there were no immediatereports of damage, and neighboring Indonesia lifted a tsunami warning.
Indonesia's quake agency had issued the warning after it said the second quake, of magnitude 7.1, hit 537 km (334 miles) northeast of Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby at a depth of 26 km (16 miles).
This followed shortly after a deeper earthquake, measured by the U.S. Geological Service at magnitude 7.2, 117 km (73 miles) east of Kandrian on New Britain island in Papua New Guinea.
Officials at the Indonesian quake agency said the earthquakes were not felt in cities such as Jayapura and Merauke in Indonesia's eastern Papua province, next to Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is a producer of oil, copper and gold.
(Reporting by Telly Nathalia and Olive Rondonuwu; writing by Neil Chatterjee; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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