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Christiansburg Well Hydrograph after Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake 28 km S of Nabire, Indonesia

By Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center
Time of Earthquake shown as a red line just before water level oscillations are recorded.
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Detailed Description

Water level response in the Christiansburg Well to a magnitude 6.1 earthquake 28 km south of Nabire, Indonesia. This water level response is likely compounded by the effects of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake 127 km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia which occurred 38 minutes later.

See the water level data here.

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.

Important: Data may be provisional

Data retrieved from USGS Earthquake Catalog using rcomcat and Water Data for the Nation using dataRetrieval 

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