Papua New Guinea’s National Disaster Centre reported it was assessing possible damage. No tsunami warnings were issued after the earthquake. Earthquakes are frequent in Papua New Guinea ...

"Papua New Guinea sits right on a plate boundary ... New Guinea's northern coast was swamped by a ;10 metre;(30-foot) tsunami in 1998, killing more than 2,200 people in one of the country's ...

Here's what we know about the major earthquake that struck the Pacific Island nation and triggered tsunami warnings.

The region is divided into two provinces, Papua and West Papua. It is separate from Papua New Guinea, which was given independence by Australia in 1975.

It may take as much as two weeks to fully restore communications in Tonga after a massive volcanic blast that triggered a tsunami ... referring to the Papua New Guinea capital, more than 4,000 ...