Teacher: In this task, given a sentence in the Lao (Laotian) language, your task is to convert it into the English language.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
100 .
Solution: Dean moved across the Bay of Campeche, eyeing over 100 oil platforms and several oil ports in the center of the country's oil industry.
Reason: The above sentence is correctly translated from Lao to English

Now, solve this instance: 7.0 .
Student:
An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale has been reported as having struck the Pacific island of New Britain, the second island in the Papua and New Guinea group.