Aftermath as strong tremor hits Papua New Guinea

Cracks emerged in the ground after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded in northeastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday.The quake hit at 9:46 a.m. local time, with the epicentre 67 kilometers east of Kainantu, a sparsely populated area.

The extent of the damage and whether there have been serious injuries or deaths from the quake was not clear in the immediate aftermath in the remote and underdeveloped region.

The NOAA has since advised there is no tsunami threat for the area.Papua New Guinea is located on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, to the east of Indonesia and north of eastern Australia.

It sits on the Pacific's "Ring of Fire," the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where much of the world's earthquakes and volcanic activity occurs.