What the records say
- When
- 23 Jan 1855
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.0
- Where
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 41.25° S, 175.00° E
- Depth km
- 33
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
3 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 “The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das Wairarapa-Erdbeben von 1855 mit dem Epizentrum auf der Nordinsel ist mit einer Stärke von 8,2 das schwerste Erdbeben in der Geschichte Neuseelands und…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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