What the records say
- When
- 31 Oct 1970
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.3
- Where
- Papua New Guinea
- Coordinates
- 4.91° S, 145.47° E
- Deaths
- 18
- Injuries
- 20
- Damage musd
- 1.75
- Houses destroyed
- 800
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 8
1970 New Guinea earthquake
On October 31 at 17:53 UTC the island of New Guinea was shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 Mw that particularly affected the city of Madang on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. Causing between five and eighteen fatalities, it triggered landslides that ran down steep hills into poorly reinforced wooden huts.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page