What the records say
- When
- 20 Dec 2007
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 39.01° S, 178.29° E
- Deaths
- 1
- Houses destroyed
- 3
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 20
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 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes the town of Gisborne, causing severe damage to several buildings and one person to die of a heart attack”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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