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Significant Earthquake

Date Earthquake Location Earthquake Parameters
Focal
Depth		 Magnitude MMI Int
Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Sec Name Latitude Longitude Mw Ms Mb Ml Mfa Unk
1989 8 1 0 18 4.8 INDONESIA: KURIMA DISTRICT, BALIEM RIVER -4.511 139.022 14 5.8 6.0


Significant Earthquake
Earthquake Effects Total Effects (Earthquake and Tsunami, Volcano, etc.)
Deaths Missing Injuries Damage Houses
Destroyed		 Houses
Damaged		 Deaths Missing Injuries Damage Houses
Destroyed		 Houses
Damaged
Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De
120 3 1.000 2


Comments for the Significant Earthquake

Comments for the Significant Earthquake

Display listing of nearby significant earthquakes


References for the Significant Earthquake

References for the Significant Earthquake

ID Author Year Citation
1053 National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) 1971 to present Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to present.
1054 McClelland, Lindsay, et al, editors 1980-1989 SEAN Bulletin, a monthly publication of the Scientific Event Alert Network of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1232 International Seismological Centre 1964-1990 Regional Catalogue of Earthquakes, 1964-1990, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1250 Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) 2001 EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, link