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Historic Earthquake
1916 Papua New Guinea Earthquake
3 August 1916 · N Coast · Papua New Guinea
On 3 August 1916 at 01:30 UTC, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea (N Coast), at a depth of 60 km. It occurred on the South Bismarck Plate, 10 km from its boundary with the Woodlark Plate (continental rift).
- Date
- 3 August 1916
- Time
- 01:30 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Depth
- 60 km
- Plate
- South Bismarck Plate
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Nearest Volcano
- Kadovar (45 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 2002Kairiru Is, Muschu Is · M 7.64 deaths
- 19981998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake · M 7.01,636 deaths
- 1986Papua New Guinea · M 7.1
- 19701970 New Guinea Earthquake · M 7.318 deaths
- 1968N Coast, Wewak · M 7.5
- 1931Bismarck Sea · M 7.0
- 1918N Coast · M 7.5
- 1907Bismarck Sea · M 7.4
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth