Year’s Biggest Quake Reported in South Pacific
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WASHINGTON — The year’s largest earthquake, with a magnitude of about 7.8 on the Richter scale, occurred in the South Pacific, the U.S. Geological Survey announced Friday.
Donovan Kelly, a U.S. Geological Survey spokesman, said the earthquake occurred at 6:48 a.m. today local time (1:48 p.m. Friday PDT). It was centered in the New Britain island region about 280 miles northeast of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, he said.
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