Acting Governor of Papua Muhammad Ridwan Rumasukun stated that the Saireri Cultural Festival could become the foundation to designate Yapen Islands as one of .
This thesis aims to establish how the late Cenozoic oblique convergence of the Pacific- Caroline and Australian plates has affected the tectonic history of the eastern Bird’s Head Peninsula in northwestern New Guinea. Emphasis is placed on insights provided by >5 magnitude earthquakes since 1976 and the structural geology of Miocene-Pleistocene sediments in the Manokwari area and Permian to Paleogene units of the northern Lengguru Fold Belt around Mawi Bay. The Bird's Head Peninsula is moving west- southwest relative to the Australian Plate based on GPS data, but slower than the west- southwest movement of the Pacific-Caroline Plate. This accounts for plate convergence between the Pacific-Caroline Plate and the Bird's Head Peninsula consistent with earthquakes caused by gently south dipping thrusts in an arc along the northern Bird’s Head coastline and indicating subduction along the Manokwari Trough. Southwards subduction along the New Guinea Trench to the northeast o
An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 jolted Jayapura District in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua on Sunday morning, but there were no immediate reports of .
Members of an armed group of Ambaidiru kampong, Kosiwo Sub-district, have surrendered to Yapen Police on an occasion witnessed by local officials and kampong .
An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 jolted northeast of Tambrauw District in West Papua Province on Wednesday morning, though no immediate reports of damages or .