What the records say
- When
- 8 Aug 1904
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 40.50° S, 177.00° E
- Depth km
- 33
1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake
Earthquake in New Zealand
The 1904 Cape Turnagain earthquake struck 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Cape Turnagain on the morning of 9 August with a magnitude estimated at 6.8 Ms and 7.0–7.2 Mw. It was felt throughout the North Island and upper South Island, with many communities within a 500 kilometres (310 mi) radius reporting noticeable ground shaking. Heavy damage occurred to the landscape and personal property and one man died.
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- 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 magnitude 7.0-7.2 earthquake strikes Cape Turnagain, causing one death”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page