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Magnitude 7.5 LOYALTY ISLANDS REGION
1998 January 04 06:11:58 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

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Regional Location

Magnitude 7.5
Date-Time 1998 01 04 06:11:58 UTC
Location 22.30S 170.91E
Depth 100.0 kilometers
Region LOYALTY ISLANDS REGION
Reference 120 km (75 miles) W of Ile Hunter, Loyalty Isl., New Caledonia
325 km (200 miles) ESE of Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
460 km (285 miles) E of NOUMEA, New Caledonia
1650 km (1030 miles) NNW of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Quality Error estimate not available
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Remarks Complex earthquake, with at least two larger events occurring about 13 and 23 seconds after the onset

NB: The region name is an automatically generated name from the Flinn-Engdahl (F-E) seismic and geographical regionalization scheme. The boundaries of these regions are defined at one-degree intervals and therefore differ from irregular political boundaries. More->

 


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