At least Four people died in remote mountainous areas Papua New Guinea the result of several avalanches caused by the strong earthquake magnitude 7.6 That hit the northeastern part of the country on Sunday morning, the humanitarian agency reported. United Nations.
“So far, at least four deaths: one on Rai Coast in Madang province and three in Wau townIt is in Morobe province, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published on its website on Sunday.
“all (deceased) buried by landslide”In the absence of official data from the Papua New Guinean government, he added OCHA, which counts victims with the help of local authorities and other humanitarian organisations.
The UN humanitarian agency also reported that at least four people were injured and caused by the earthquake. “moderate to severe” property damage in buildings and infrastructure.
“I know that Telecommunications and electricity were also affected in some parts of the country.”Papua Prime Minister James Marape said in a message to the nation the previous day that his government was collecting all the data to distribute aid to the victims.
Papua New Guinea rocked on Sunday A 7.6 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter 63 kilometers from the mountainous town of KainantuIt is a highly unpopulated area about 400 kilometers northeast of the capital Port Moresby, with the epicenter at a depth of 61 kilometers.
The United States Geological Survey that day Warning of possible tsunami risk It is 1000 kilometers from the epicenter, which was later removed.
The island of New Guinea, the western half of which belongs to Indonesia, Sitting on the “Pacific Ring of Fire”a region of great seismic and volcanic activity and shaken by approximately 7,000 tremors each year, mostly of moderate intensity.
More than 145 people died in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that occurred in February 2018. and hundreds of injured in a remote mountain region of Papua New Guinea.