Magnitude 7 and Greater Earthquakes in 1997
| Year | Month | Day | Time UTC |
Latitude | Longitude | Depth (km) |
Magnitude | Region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1997 | 01 | 11 | 20:28:26.0 | 18.219 | -102.756 | 33 | 7.2 | Michoacan, Mexico |
| 2 | 1997 | 01 | 23 | 02:15:22.9 | -21.999 | -65.719 | 276 | 7.1 | Off Southern Bolivia |
| 3 | 1997 | 02 | 27 | 21:08:02.3 | 29.976 | 68.208 | 33 | 7.1 | Pakistan |
| 4 | 1997 | 04 | 21 | 12:02:26.4 | -12.584 | 166.676 | 33 | 7.7 | Santa Cruz Islands |
| 5 | 1997 | 05 | 10 | 07:57:29.7 | 33.825 | 59.809 | 10 | 7.3 | Northern Iran |
| 6 | 1997 | 05 | 25 | 23:22:33.1 | -32.115 | 179.791 | 333 | 7.1 | South of Kermadec Islands |
| 7 | 1997 | 07 | 09 | 19:24:13.1 | 10.598 | -63.486 | 20 | 7.0 | Near Coast of Venezuela |
| 8 | 1997 | 09 | 20 | 16:11:32.1 | -28.683 | -177.624 | 30 | 7.0 | Kermadec Islands Region |
| 9 | 1997 | 10 | 14 | 09:53:18.1 | -22.101 | -176.772 | 167 | 7.8 | South of Fiji Islands |
| 10 | 1997 | 10 | 15 | 01:03:33.4 | -30.933 | -71.220 | 58 | 7.1 | Near Coast of Central Chile |
| 11 | 1997 | 10 | 28 | 06:15:17.3 | -4.368 | -76.681 | 112 | 7.2 | Northern Peru |
| 12 | 1997 | 11 | 08 | 10:02:52.6 | 35.069 | -87.325 | 33 | 7.5 | Xizang |
| 13 | 1997 | 11 | 15 | 18:59:24.3 | -15.145 | 167.375 | 123 | 7.0 | Vanuatu Islands |
| 14 | 1997 | 11 | 25 | 12:14:33.6 | 1.241 | 122.536 | 24 | 7.0 | Minahassa Peninsula, Sulawesi |
| 15 | 1997 | 12 | 05 | 11:26:54.6 | 54.841 | 162.035 | 33 | 7.8 | Near East Coast of Kamchatka |
| 16 | 1997 | 12 | 22 | 02:05:50.0 | -5.495 | 147.867 | 179 | 7.2 | Eastern New Guinea Region |
South Latitudes and West Longitudes are indicated by NEGATIVE numbers.
Source: USGS NEIC PDE catalog; Data are preliminary.

