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Earthquakes in 1982

The USGS located 3,539 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more worldwide in 1982, 87 of them magnitude 6 or more, and 3,169 of magnitude 2.5 or more in the United States. The largest: M7.3 18 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador, Jun 19, 1982.

From the USGS catalog. Magnitude 4.5 and up worldwide, and 2.5 and up in the United States. Times are local to each quake.

19811983

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Where the largest earthquakes of 1982 were located. Select one for its page.

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The largest

The 25 largest of 1982, by magnitude.

  1. 7.318 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador · 73 km deepEl Salvador
  2. 7.2south of Tonga · 33 km deepTonga
  3. 7.193 km ENE of Hasaki, Japan · 37 km deepJapan
  4. 7.1west of the Bonin Islands, Japan · 536 km deepJapan
  5. 7.14 km SW of Gigmoto, Philippines · 46 km deepPhilippines
  6. 7.0207 km S of Lata, Solomon Islands · 31 km deepSolomon Islands
  7. 7.0north of Macquarie Island · 10 km deep
  8. 7.05 km NNW of San Juan Bautista Lo de Soto, Mexico · 34 km deepMexico
  9. 6.9264 km ESE of Kuril’sk, Russia · 33 km deepRussia
  10. 6.91 km SE of San Juan Cacahuatepec, Mexico · 41 km deepMexico
  11. 6.8Izu Islands, Japan region · 176 km deepJapan
  12. 6.8146 km S of Punta de Burica, Panama · 10 km deepPanama
  13. 6.828 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands · 36 km deepSolomon Islands
  14. 6.828 km SSE of Karyes, Greece · 10 km deepGreece
  15. 6.740 km NNE of Santa Rosa, Peru · 14 km deepPeru
  16. 6.7east of the South Sandwich Islands · 10 km deepSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  17. 6.719 km S of Shizunai-furukawach?, Japan · 44 km deepJapan
  18. 6.7Bonin Islands, Japan region · 22 km deepJapan
  19. 6.614 km NW of Nahr?n, Afghanistan · 36 km deepAfghanistan
  20. 6.671 km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu · 257 km deepVanuatu
  21. 6.6122 km SSE of Boca Suno, Ecuador · 195 km deepEcuador
  22. 6.548 km WNW of Yonakuni, Japan · 87 km deepJapan
  23. 6.598 km E of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea · 45 km deepPapua New Guinea
  24. 6.5Kermadec Islands, New Zealand · 25 km deepNew Zealand
  25. 6.518 km W of Champerico, Guatemala · 65 km deepGuatemala

Month by month

Counted by UTC date, which is how the catalog files them.

MonthQuakesLargestWhere
January 19825297.14 km SW of Gigmoto, Philippines
February 19824706.828 km ESE of Lata, Solomon Islands
March 19825816.719 km S of Shizunai-furukawach?, Japan
April 19825046.518 km W of Champerico, Guatemala
May 19825396.7east of the South Sandwich Islands
June 19825197.318 km SSW of La Libertad, El Salvador
July 19824787.193 km ENE of Hasaki, Japan
August 19825287.0207 km S of Lata, Solomon Islands
September 19825646.8Izu Islands, Japan region
October 19826636.2150 km N of Manatutu, Timor Leste
November 19824376.740 km NNE of Santa Rosa, Peru
December 19826417.2south of Tonga

By state

Where the year’s United States quakes of magnitude 2.5 and up were located. A state with none that year is not listed.

By country

Where the year’s quakes of magnitude 4.5 and up were located. Quakes at sea, away from any country, are not counted here.

What this means

The catalog is only as complete as the instruments of the time. Worldwide coverage of magnitude 5 and up dates from the 1960s, and of 4.5 from the 1990s; earlier years hold the large quakes and the ones near a station, so a low count in an early year means fewer instruments, not a quiet earth.

By year

Every year the USGS catalog covers.

Sources

Earthquakes, magnitudes, depths, shaking estimates and felt reports from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program, read from its live feeds and its catalog back to 1900. Tsunami messages from NOAA’s tsunami warning centers.