What the records say
- When
- 2 Mar 1987
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 37.97° S, 176.76° E
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 25
- Damage musd
- 210
- Intensity mmi
- 10
- Depth km
- 19
2 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 “Edgecumbe earthquake in the Bay of Plenty”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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