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House damaged by earthquake
Photograph by J.D. Griggs on June 27, 1989.

An earthquake (M=6.1) beneath the south flank of Kilauea Volcanoe at a depth of about 9 km on June 25, 1989, destroyed this house. The earthquake was located near the epicenter of the M=7.2 Kalapana earthquake on November 29, 1975.


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Updated : 20 March 1998