What the records say
- When
- 17 Mar 1973
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Where
- Philippines
- Coordinates
- 13.40° N, 122.80° E
- Deaths
- 15
- Injuries
- 64
- Damage musd
- 0.45
- Houses destroyed
- 98
- Intensity mmi
- 9
- Depth km
- 33
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 7.0 earthquake that hit a southern Luzon area kills 14 and injures a hundred”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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