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Historic Earthquake
1972 Indonesia Earthquake
11 June 1972 · Celebes Sea · Indonesia
On 11 June 1972 at 16:41 UTC, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Indonesia (Celebes Sea), at a depth of 325 km. It occurred on the Sunda Plate, 232 km from its boundary with the Molucca Sea Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 11 June 1972
- Time
- 16:41 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.8
- Depth
- 325 km
- Plate
- Sunda Plate
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nearest Volcano
- Mount Awu (129 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20262026 Mindanao Earthquake · M 7.8107 deaths
- 20022002 Mindanao Earthquake · M 7.515 deaths
- 19761976 Moro Gulf Erdbeben · M 8.08,000 deaths
- 1936Talaud Islands · M 7.7
- 19181918 Celebes Sea Earthquake · M 8.352 deaths
- 19131913 Sulawesi–Mindanao Earthquake · M 7.8138 deaths
- 1910Talaud Islands · M 7.5
- 1908Celebes Sea · M 7.5
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth