Magnitude 7.0 Near North Coast of New Guinea, P.N.G.
1998 July 17 08:49:13 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
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Magnitude | 7.0 | |
| Date-Time | 1998 07 17 08:49:13 UTC | ||
| Location | 2.96S 141.92E | ||
| Depth | 10.0 kilometers | ||
| Region | Near North Coast of New Guinea, P.N.G. | ||
| Reference |
80 km (50 miles) ESE of Vanimo, New Guinea, PNG 145 km (90 miles) ESE of Jayapura, Irian Jaya, Indonesia 930 km (570 miles) NW of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea 2955 km (1840 miles) NNW of Brisbane, Australia |
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| Location Quality | Error estimate not available | ||
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Location Quality Parameters |
Not available | ||
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) | ||
| Remarks | At least 2,183 people killed, thousands injured, about 9,500 homeless and about 500 missing as a result of a tsunami generated in the Sissano area. Maximum wave heights estimated at 15 meters. Several villages were completely destroyed and others extensively damaged. Maximum recorded wave heights from selected tide stations (peak-to-trough, in cm) were as follows: 40 on Miyake-jima; 30 at Tosa-Shimuzu, Shikoku; 26 at Muroto, Shikoku; 24 at Naze, Amami O-shima; 20 on Tanega-shima; 20 at Kushimoto, Honshu; 6 at Jackson Bay and 4.7 at Kaikoura, New Zealand; 5 on Yap. Felt along much of the northern Papua New Guinea coast. |
| The Papua, New Guinea Tsunami of 1998 July 17 |
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.
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