Xinhua, 24 December 2006
Moderate quakes hit eastern part of Indonesia and its neighboring Papua New Guinea Sunday and there is no immediate report on casualty or tsunami, Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.
A 5.7-magnitude quake jolted Papua New Guinea's island shared with Indonesia's Papua province with epicenter 53 kilometers under seabed at 530 kilometers northwest Port Moresby, capital city of the country, said an official of the agency named only Nurpujiono.
The quake struck at 16:46 Jakarta time, he said.
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