6.8 earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea

6.8 earthquake, strikes Papua New Guinea. Guinea experienced a magnitude 6.8 earthquake, according to an April 16 Washington Post report. In the same time period, the State of Oklahoma has experienced 32 small earthquakes, which is unprecedented seismic action in the region. Also, Iran has been struck with a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, and many people may have sustained injuries.

Following the shallow magnitude 6.8 earthquake there was no tsunami warning, which is a relief for the region. People in Papua New Guinea are used to seismic activity because they are located in the Pacific "Ring of Fire." So far there are no reports of what type of damage or injuries may have resulted from this magnitude 6.8 earthquake near Papua New Guinea.

In Oklahoma, the earthquakes ranged from very small to 4.3 magnitude, and residents are shaken by the strange unusual shaking. The Oklahoma Geological Survey's Seismologist Austin Holland said

"We can't tell if it's going to get worse and this has been such an odd set of earthquakes that it's hard to say what might come in the future, not that we can predict the future anyway."

The quakes were shallow, and if they had been stronger than magnitude 4.3 they could have caused damage in Oklahoma. If any of them had been a magnitude 6.8 earthquake like the one around the world, it would have produced significant damage in the state.

The Iran earthquake was the strongest to hit Iran in the past 40 years. Nearby Pakistan sustained much of the damage from the quake.

Could these earthquakes be related? Perhaps. Right now officials have not mentioned that they are, but one thing is certain, Oklahoma is experiencing an incredibly high amount of earthquakes today.

Source: Examiner