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Historic Earthquake
1957 Indonesia Earthquake
16 April 1957 · Java Sea · Indonesia
On 16 April 1957 at 04:04 UTC, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Indonesia (Java Sea), at a depth of 600 km. It occurred on the Sunda Plate, 485 km from its boundary with the Australian Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 16 April 1957
- Time
- 04:04 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Depth
- 600 km
- Plate
- Sunda Plate
- Country
- Indonesia
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Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth