High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that took place in the early evening of Friday, 17 July 1998. The earthquake struck the north coast region of Papua New Guinea, 25 km (16 mi) from the coast near Aitape, and caused a large undersea landslide, which in turn caused a tsunami that hit the coast, killing more than 2200 people. The tsunami resulted in at least 2,200 people being killed, thousands being injured, about 9,500 homeless and about 500 missing. The maximum height of the waves were estimated at being 15 m (59 ft) high with an average height of 10.5 m (34 ft). The earthquake occurred at 6:49pm local time (UTC+10) along the boundary of the Australia and the Pacific tetonic plates at 2.96°S 141.92°E. The result from the event was originally thought to have created a two-metre vertical drop in the Pacific Plate along a 40 km (25 mi) long crack.

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