7.5R in Papua new Guiness

A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 7.5 has struck Papua New Guinea. The quake was centered 28 miles northeast of Kokopo and hit at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake had triggered a tsunami alert for the country and the nearby Solomon Islands, but the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center later said the tsunami threat passed.
Papua New Guinea is located on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, to the east of Indonesia. It sits on the Pacific's "Ring of Fire," the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world's earthquakes and volcanic activity occur.
The PNG calendar for May is shown below and we can see it seems a day early but the peak is there.

Below we see also the calculated stress points for the PNG region where we see the stress point very close to the earthquake epicenter.

Magnitude	Mw 7.5
Region	NEW BRITAIN REGION, P.N.G.
Date time	2019-05-14 12:58:25.4 UTC
Location	4.08 S ; 152.59 E
Depth	10 km
Distances	842 km NE of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea / pop: 284,000 / local time: 22:58:25.4 2019-05-14 47 km NE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea / pop: 26,300 / local time: 22:58:25.4 2019-05-14

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