What the records say
- When
- 15 Jul 2009
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.8
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 45.76° S, 166.56° E
- Depth km
- 12
2009 Dusky Sound earthquake
Earthquake in New Zealand
A Mw 7.8 earthquake struck a remote region of Fiordland, New Zealand, on 15 July 2009 at 21:22 local time. It had an initially–reported depth of 12 km (7.5 mi), and an epicentre near Dusky Sound in Fiordland National Park, which is 160 km (99 mi) north-west of Invercargill.
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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 7.8 earthquake strikes in Fiordland at 9:22 pm, 90 km north-west of Tuatapere”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page