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Historic Earthquake
1942 Indonesia Earthquake
28 May 1942 · Minahassa Peninsula · Indonesia
On 28 May 1942 at 01:01 UTC, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Indonesia (Minahassa Peninsula), at a depth of 120 km. It occurred on the Molucca Sea Plate, 46 km from its boundary with the Sunda Plate (oceanic transform fault).
- Date
- 28 May 1942
- Time
- 01:01 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Depth
- 120 km
- Plate
- Molucca Sea Plate
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nearest Volcano
- Ambang (96 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 2000Sulawesi, Luwuk · M 7.654 deaths
- 1998Mangole, Manado · M 7.741 deaths
- 1991Minahassa, Gorontalo · M 7.5
- 1990Minahassa Peninsula, Bolaang-Gorontalo · M 7.63 deaths
- 1968Molucca Islands, Manado · M 7.6
- 1939Centrtal Sulawesi, Kalo · M 8.0
- 1932Sulawesi, Kakas · M 7.77 deaths
- 1905Minahassa Peninsula · M 8.4
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth