March 2015 Kokopo earthquake
The rupture occurred off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, with the epicentre placed between 53 and 54 km southeast of Kokopo on New Britain. Catalogue coordinates put it at 4.73 S, 152.56 E.
- Origin time (UTC)
- 2015-03-29T23:48
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Magnitude type
- mww
- Depth (km)
- 41
- USGS event page
- earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10001rvu
Category: Disasters & Incidents
Tags: papua new guinea, kokopo, new britain, offshore
Coordinates: -4.7294, 152.5623
Part of Earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 and above in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands since 1990
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