• This handout photograph taken Thursday and released by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on Sunday shows air force personnel along with Australian High Commission officials and Papua New Guinean locals unloading humanitarian aid from trucks onto an RAAF C-130J aircraft in Lae, bound for earthquake-affected areas in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Local communities are struggling to cope with the aftermath of a major earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea's remote highlands almost a week ago, reports said Sunday, amid fears of a rising death toll. | DAVID GIBBS / ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE / VIA AFP-JIJI
    This handout photograph taken Thursday and released by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on Sunday shows air force personnel along with Australian High Commission officials and Papua New Guinean locals unloading humanitarian aid from trucks onto an RAAF C-130J aircraft in Lae, bound for earthquake-affected areas in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Local communities are struggling to cope with the aftermath of a major earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea's remote highlands almost a week ago, reports said Sunday, amid fears of a rising death toll. | DAVID GIBBS / ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE / VIA AFP-JIJI

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SYDNEY/WELLINGTON – Strong aftershocks rocked Papua New Guinea’s remote and rugged highlands on Monday, a week after the largest quake to hit the region in almost a century killed at least 31 people.

Three aftershocks stronger than magnitude 5 shook the mountainous Southern Highlands, about 600 km (370 miles) northwest of the capital Port Moresby early on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, including a shallow magnitude 6 quake.

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