What the records say
- When
- 25 Mar 1947
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.1
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 38.85° S, 178.87° E
- Intensity mmi
- 4
- Depth km
- 12
1947 Gisborne earthquakes and tsunami
Earthquakes in New Zealand
The 1947 Gisborne earthquakes and tsunami occurred east of Gisborne and offshore from New Zealand's North Island. Both earthquakes measured 7.7 and 7.6 on the moment magnitude scale, and generated large tsunamis, although there were no casualties.
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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 “A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes east of Gisborne, causing a tsunami with a maximum run-up height of 10 metres”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page