The 7.0 <span about="#mwt58" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"M","href":"./Template:M"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"w"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAS4" typeof="mw:Transclusion">M</span><sub about="#mwt58">w</sub><span about="#mwt58" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><link about="#mwt58" href="./Category:Articles_using_Mw_magnitude_scale" id="mwAS8" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Papua_New_Guinea_earthquake" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake">Papua New Guinea earthquake</a> triggers a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tsunami">tsunami</a> that destroys ten villages in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.