What the records say
- When
- 23 Dec 2011
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.8
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 43.49° S, 172.80° E
- Injuries
- 60
- Depth km
- 10
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 5.8 and a magnitude 6.0 earthquake strike Christchurch at 1:58pm and 3:18pm respectively, causing damage, liquefaction, minor injuries”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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