People are definitely very frightened,” Udaya Regmi, the head of the IRC in Papua New Guinea, said by telephone from Port Moresby. ExxonMobil said it had shut its Hides gas conditioning plant and that it believed administration buildings, living quarters and a mess hall had been damaged. Gas is processed at Hides and transported along a 435-mile line that feeds a liquefied natural gas plant near Port Moresby for shipping. BREAKING: A 7.5 magnitude #earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. Earthquakes are common in Papua New Guinea, which sits on the Pacific’s “Ring of Fire”, a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates.

Source: Huffington Post February 25, 2018 19:12 UTC