At least one company began evacuating non-essential personnel after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea’s energy-rich interior on Monday, causing landslides, damaging buildings and closing oil and gas operations. Papua New Guinea sent troops and rescue workers to respond to a powerful earthquake, with unconfirmed reports of fatalities and warnings of aftershocks and landslides. Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency said that the powerful earthquake that struck Papua New Guinea caused panic and damaged buildings in the Boven Diguel area of Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province.