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Historic Earthquake
1945 Papua New Guinea Earthquake
28 December 1945 · New Britain · Papua New Guinea
On 28 December 1945 at 17:48 UTC, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea (New Britain), at a depth of 60 km. It occurred on the South Bismarck Plate, 99 km from its boundary with the Solomon Sea Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 28 December 1945
- Time
- 17:48 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.8
- Depth
- 60 km
- Plate
- South Bismarck Plate
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Nearest Volcano
- Krummel-Garbuna-Welcker (65 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20002000 New Ireland Earthquakes · M 7.8
- 1987New Britain, Kandrian · M 7.7
- 1987Huon Peninsula, Umboi Island · M 7.63 deaths
- 1964New Britain · M 7.6
- 1920New Britain · M 7.7
- 1906New Britain · M 8.0
- 1905Bismarck Sea · M 7.5
- 1902Papua New Guinea · M 7.8
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth