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6.3 quake hits Papua New Guinea
October 18, 2011
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea's remote New Britain region today, but was unlikely to cause a tsunami, Australian seismologists said. A 6.7-magnitude jolt hit the country on Friday but there were no reports of damage in the impoverished Pacific island state.
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