KANDRIAN, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck an island of Papua New Guinea (P.N.G.) on late Thursday morning, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The 6.6-magnitude earthquake at 10.03 a.m. local time (0003 GMT) was centered about 175 kilometers (109 miles) east of Kandrian, the capital of Papua New Guinea's Kandrian-Gloucester District on the island of New Britain. It struck about 21.5 kilometers (13.4 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

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