1966 3/20 01:42 UTC 0.84N 29.86E 15km M=7.2, Uganda-Zaire
The death toll of this earthquake was about 200.
Since we have no information about this
earthquake, we urge scientists and engineers who have studied this earthquake to contribute their
materials for this archive. Please contact William H. K. Lee at:
lee@usgs.gov (office), or whklee@ix.netcom.com (home).
Contributors: Charles R. Hutt, William H. K. Lee.
1. Seismograms of the 1966 Uganda-
Zaire Earthquake:
Selected WWSSN seismograms from this
earthquake were scanned as part of the ICSU Scanning Project.
Please note that there were some smaller earthquakes occurred hours before this earthquake.
Please note that there was an aftershock occurred on the same date:
1966 3/20 08:55 UTC 0.74N 29.86E mb = 5.5
link to compressed tif file directory (.gz format)
(Last Updated: September 12, 2004)