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Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (75 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 47 min

It's the biggest earthquake I've feel, everything shake and I afraid the southern cross tank might collaps.

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (77 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 2269 min

Quite a violent earthquake, biggest I have felt in Papua New Guinea in 30 years

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (78 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 8 min

Felt it I Papua new guines

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (79 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15115 min

Driving when this hit very scary!

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (79 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 745 min

very strong

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (79 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

It's a massive earthquake I've ever felt in Lae City. It's the first of its kind.

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (80 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Never felt anything like this in this place before

Witness location : Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea) (81 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 4 min

Massive must have been a 7.5

Witness location : Goroka (Papua New Guinea) (122 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 18 min

That's the biggest earthquake I've felt in Papua New Guinea in all my 42 years here

Witness location : Jiwaka Province (Papua New Guinea) (219 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 17 min

Biggest earthquake felt by anyone

Witness location : Madang Province (Papua New Guinea) (224 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 13 min

Biggest I experienced

Witness location : Northern (Oro) Province (Papua New Guinea) (321 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 7 min

Nearly a minute

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (351 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

Table, desktop screen and building shaking

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (361 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 101 min

I felt this massive earthquake here in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (364 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 32 min

Lasted about 30 sec to a minute here in POM. Not a big shake, more on the ground is vibrating

Witness location : Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Continuous movement of furniture for 2 minutes

Witness location : Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 272 min

I sitting in my house this morning (Sunday 11/09/22) when at around 9:30am I felt the tremor. I've experienced earthquakes before so I would classify it as being between 1 - 2 on the Richter scale.

Witness location : Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

It was a few seconds longer than what occurs before

Witness location : Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

Everything started shaking for a continuous 4 minutes or so.

Witness location : Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 217 min

Felt house shaking and loose appliances in house eg wall clock, picture frames, urn etc were also shaking

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 9 min

Felt an earthquake now in Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 149 min

Big movement.

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 33 min

Felt in port Moresby

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (365 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 80 min

Was on 08th floor of Holiday Inn suites Port Moresby.

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (366 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

2 waves in 2 min

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (367 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 4 min

slight trembling

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (367 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Frightening

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (367 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Definitely felt. Strong rather for a at least a minute. Sloshed the water in the pool.

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (367 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 6 min

30 seconds. String shaking.

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (368 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

Quite a shock as it was a first after a long while

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (369 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 12 min

Less than a minute earthquake

Witness location : Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (370 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 86 min

First time I've ever felt such a heavy shake in the house and everyone went under house for safety and had to scream at them to out from under. Unfortunately some people dont understand the dangers of a structure collapse.

Witness location : (Indonesia) (718 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 17 min

my position is in Merauke Papua.  The water in the bottle sways for a long time