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The quake brought down power lines in the Rabaul area, knocking out power to residents and to the local Geophysical Observatory office
The high-powered earthquake, which registered an initial magnitude of 7.5 and was later downgraded struck about 94 miles southwest of the town of Panguna on Bougainville
The quake was centred in the same area as two earthquakes that rocked Papua New Guinea last week. The nation sits on the Ring of Fire, the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes are common.
In 1998 more than 2,200 people were killed on the north coast of Papua New Guinea following a massive underwater landslide off the coast near the small town of Aitape
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