Quake of 8.0 magnitude strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS

[brooklynite]

Source: Reuters

An 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck 47 kilometers (29 miles) west of Arawa on Bougainville island, Papua New Guinea, the United States Geological Survey reported on Sunday.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in an advisory that "widespread hazardous tsunami waves are possible" as a result of the earthquake for the next three hours along the coasts of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Nauru, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Vanuatu, Chuuk and Indonesia.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-papua-quake-idUSKBN15605Y

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U.S Geological Survey map

[SkyDaddy7]

1. OH NO!

[Leghorn21]

2. Have mercy, that's a monster. May tsunamis of any sort NOT materialize.

Just for reference, don't know if this will work, but I check this quake site a couple times a week or so, and this one is obviously massive:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22grayscale%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B-89.9976024476319%2C-326.25%5D%2C%5B89.9976024476319%2C303.75%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3A%22us10007uph%22%7D

[Warpy]

3. 147 Km down

so it could have been a lot worse.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. i check the us gs worldwide map every day sometimes multiple times

i noticed that in the last several days the microquakes in california , else where in the world dissapeared .......