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Historic Earthquake
1968 Papua New Guinea Earthquake
23 October 1968 · N Coast, Wewak · Papua New Guinea
On 23 October 1968 at 21:04 UTC, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea (N Coast, Wewak), at a depth of 21 km. It occurred on the Woodlark Plate, 36 km from its boundary with the North Bismarck Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 23 October 1968
- Time
- 21:04 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Depth
- 21 km
- Plate
- Woodlark Plate
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Nearest Volcano
- Kadovar (145 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 2002Kairiru Is, Muschu Is · M 7.64 deaths
- 1986Papua New Guinea · M 7.1
- 19701970 New Guinea Earthquake · M 7.318 deaths
- 1935N-Central · M 7.8
- 1918N Coast · M 7.5
- 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