- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- December 24, 1943 CE
- Location:
- 156 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea
- Magnitude:
- 6.47 Mw
- Depth:
- 35 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 6.47
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 7.15
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 6.04
Other earthquake records of 1943 CE
- Turkey, Ladik, Samsun, Havza · Mw 7.5 · 4,020 deaths
- Japan, Honshu: S · M 7.4 · 1,400 deaths
- Turkey, Anatolia: Ne · 550 deaths
- Turkey, Hendek, Adapazari · Mw 6.4 · 285 deaths
- Indonesia, Java: Jogyakarta · Ms 8.1 · 213 deaths
- Peru, Yanacoa, Pampamarca · Ms 5 · 75 deaths
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat) · License: U.S. Public Domain (USGS) · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did M 6.5 - 156 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea (1943 CE) happen?
- December 24, 1943 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from U.S. Geological Survey, Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat); it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.