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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center earlier warned of waves of up to 3m (10ft) above tide level reaching the Philippine coast.

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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu had warned of a “destructive tsunami” within 300 kilometres (186 miles) of the epicentre.

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Indonesia’s Papua province on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey ...

The epicentre of the earthquake was located around 200 km from Abepura. However, no tsunami warning has been issued so far.