Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes New Guinea, Papua New Guinea – GFZ

(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck the New Guinea, Papua New Guinea region early on Wednesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The quake was estimated at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles) GFZ added.

(Reporting by Shubhendu Deshmukh in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)