- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 19, 1995 CE
- Location:
- Indonesia, Irian Jaya Region
- Magnitude:
- 6.9 Mw
- Depth:
- 33 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 6.9
- USGS_COMCAT: mb 5.1
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 6.8
- USGS_COMCAT: mb 5.2
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.2
- USGS_COMCAT: mb 5
Other earthquake records of 1995 CE
- Japan, Sw Honshu: Kobe, Awaji-Shima, Nishinomiya · Mw 6.9 · 6,434 deaths
- Russia, Sakhalin Is: Neftegorsk, Okha, Moskalvo · Ms 7.1 · 1,989 deaths
- Turkey, Dinar, Evciler · Mw 6.4 · 95 deaths
- Indonesia, Sumatera, Jambi Province · Mw 6.8 · 84 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province: Wuding · Mw 6.2 · 81 deaths
- Mexico, Jalisco, Manzanillo, San Patricio Melaque · Mw 8 · 50 deaths
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Global Significant Earthquake Database, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K · License: U.S. Government Work · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1995 CE Earthquake — Indonesia, Irian Jaya Region happen?
- March 19, 1995 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Global Significant Earthquake Database, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.
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