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Historic Earthquake
1918 Papua New Guinea Earthquake
3 July 1918 · N Coast · Papua New Guinea
On 3 July 1918 at 06:52 UTC, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea (N Coast), at a depth of 60 km. It occurred on the Woodlark Plate, 65 km from its boundary with the North Bismarck Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 3 July 1918
- Time
- 06:52 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Depth
- 60 km
- Plate
- Woodlark Plate
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20182018 Papua New Guinea Earthquake · M 7.5145 deaths
- 2002Kairiru Is, Muschu Is · M 7.64 deaths
- 19761976 Papua Earthquake · M 7.16,000 deaths
- 1968N Coast, Wewak · M 7.5
- 1935N-Central · M 7.8
- 1917Papua New Guinea · M 7.5
- 1916N 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