Quake of magnitude 6.6 shakes Lae city in Papua New Guinea

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck near Papua New Guinea's second largest city Lae on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, terrifying mourners in a stadium but with no damage immediately reported. The epicentre was 26 km (16 miles) from Lae, which has a population of over 76,000, according to the USGS. It was also felt in the capital Port Moresby, social media showed. A Papua New Guinea government official, Malum Nalu, said the "very violent" earthquake struck around 9 p.m. when he was in Lae's stadium with hundreds of others for a ceremony in honour of the deceased governor of the local Morobe province. Soldiers were lifting Luther Wenge's casket to go to a funeral home when it struck,...