What the records say
- When
- 13 Nov 2016
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.8
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 42.74° S, 173.05° E
- Deaths
- 2
- Damage musd
- 3900
- Intensity mmi
- 9
- Depth km
- 15
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A MW 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikōura at midnight, killing two people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 7,8 frappe le village de Culverden et ses environs dans l'Île du Sud, faisant deux morts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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