An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck Sunday Papua province, on the eastern tip of Indonesia and west of the island of New Guinea, without having been declared tsunami warning or reports of casualties or damage.
The US Geological Survey (USGS), which tracks seismic activity worldwide, the hypocenter located 28 kilometers deep and 252 kilometers southwest of Jayapura, the capital of the Indonesian province of Papua.
The island of New Guinea, the western half belongs to Indonesia and the eastern Papua New Guinea, sits on the "Ring of Fire Pacific", an area of high seismic and volcanic activity is shaken a year by some 7,000 tremors, the moderate majority.
An earthquake of magnitude 7 hit degrees 1998 the Bismarck Sea in the east of the island of New Guinea, and caused a tidal wave that swept dozens of villages and killed more than 2,200 people.