A shallow 6.6 magnitude earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey says, the latest in a series to hit the region in recent days, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Monday's quake struck 180km west of the town of Rabaul, on NewBritain island, at a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.
The quake was initially recorded with a magnitude of 7.0 but was later downgraded. There was no immediate tsunami warning.
"We are okay. No one is injured," said Sylvia Ombul, night desk supervisor at the Kimbe Bay Hotel in the port town of Kimbe, about 140km to the west of the quake.
"Right now at the hotel all my guests are okay," Ombul added. She described the quake as "not really big".
Papua New Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, is still reeling a month after a magnitude 7.5 quake hit some 900 km to the west in its rugged and remote highlands, killing at least 100 people as landslides buried villages.
