2017 Papua New Guinea earthquake
Earthquake affecting Papua New Guinea
6°14′46″S 155°10′19″E / 6.246°S 155.172°E / -6.246; 155.172
The 2017 Papua New Guinea earthquake was an Mww 7.9 earthquake that struck at 04:30 UTC on 22 January 2017.[2][3]
Impact
Damage
Damage occurred in Arawa and parts of central Bougainville, while a power outage occurred in Buka.[4]
Casualties
Two children were killed and another was injured from a landslide, and a 7-year old girl died after she was hit by falling rocks.[5] Another landslide killed two teenagers as well.[6] Fifteen children were injured by falling trees and rocks,[6] while two men were slightly injured by a landslide in Panguna.[7]
See also
- List of earthquakes in 2017
- List of earthquakes in Papua New Guinea
- 2016 Solomon Islands earthquakes
References
- ^ "M 7.9 - 35km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea". earthquake.usgs.gov. USGS. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ Joe Sutton; Susannah Cullinane (22 January 2017). "Magnitude 7.9 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea". CNN. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ "Powerful quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, initial tsunami alert wound back". Reuters. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ Rod Mcguirk (22 January 2017). "Strong quake hits Solomons; some damage but no tsunami". Associated Press. Retrieved 22 January 2017 – via The Daily Republican.
- ^ "Quake Hits Bougainville". bougainville.typepad.com.
- ^ a b "Masiu urges ABG to assess earhquake [sic] damage". 31 January 2017. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017.
- ^ "Two escape landslide after 7.9 Bougainville quake". Radio New Zealand. 23 January 2017.
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- Tripura, India (5.7, January 3)
- Amatrice, Italy (5.7, January 18) †
- Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (7.9, January 22)
- Uttarakhand, India (5.1, February 6)
- Surigao del Norte, Philippines (6.5, February 10)
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- 5.1, April 4
- 5.9, April 8
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- 5.4, May 10
- Lesbos, Greece
- 6.3, June 12
- San Marcos, Guatemala
- 6.9, June 14
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- Commander Islands, Russia (7.7, July 17)
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- 6.6, July 20
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- 6.5, August 8
- Jinghe, Xinjiang, China
- 6.3, August 8
- Ischia, Italy
- 4.2, August 21
- Ryanggang, North Korea (6.3, September 3)
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- Jacó, Costa Rica (6.5, November 13)
- Pohang, South Korea (5.4, November 15)
- Java, Indonesia (6.5, December 15)
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