What the records say
- When
- 2 Feb 1931
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.7
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 39.77° S, 176.03° E
- Deaths
- 261
- Injuries
- 400
- Damage musd
- 25
- Intensity mmi
- 9
- Depth km
- 35
5 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 “The Hawkes Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst, kills 256 people, mainly in Napier and Hastings”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch das Hawke’s-Bay-Erdbeben und darauf folgende Feuer werden die neuseeländischen Städte Hastings, Havelock North und Napier weitgehend zerstört”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в результате землетрясения в Новой Зеландии погибло 256 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ホークス・ベイ地震が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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