1987 Edgecumbe earthquake
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The 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake measured 6.5 on the moment magnitude scale and struck the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand at 1.42 pm on 2 March. The hypocentre was at a shallow depth of 8 km. The ep
Bay of Plenty Earthquake, 1987
1987 Edgecumbe earthquake
Commemoration plaque
Damaged Railway tracks
Edgecumbe
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Edgecumbe is a town in the Bay of Plenty Region of the North Island of New Zealand, 15 kilometres to the west of Whakatāne and 8 kilometres south of the Bay's coast.
1987 Edgecumbe earthquake
…shallow depth of 8 km. The epicentre was 2.24 kilometres (1.39 mi) south-south-east of the town of Matatā, and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north-north-west of Edgecumbe, on the Rangitaiki Plains (the floodplain of the Rangitaiki River, the Tarawera River and the Whakatāne River). It was the most damaging earthquake New…
1987 Earthquake memorial (on right).