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Type Event
Magnitude 5.6 mb
Local datetime 2013/08/16 17:31
Universal datetime 2013/08/16 05:31
Latitude -41.90 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 173.28 ° ± 5 km
Depth 10 km (from location) ± 0.0 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Christchurch  189 363926
Lower Hutt  157 101194
Palmerston North  260 75996
Porirua  157 50914
Wanganui  264 40268
Upper Hutt  169 38400
Ashburton  255 30100
Blenheim  71 26550
Paraparaumu  182 25263
Masterton  224 20698
Levin  220 19789
Hawera  271 11068
Kaiapoi  172 10200
Greymouth  181 9419
Wellington  142 5428

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.07
Azimuthal gap 67.81 °
Number of stations used 20
Number of phases used 20

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU RAR P 05:37:39.2 4.17 55.93 30.66 Automatic
IU CTAO P 05:37:43.77 1.04 305.38 31.56 Automatic
II WRAB P 05:38:50.92 0.2 291.67 39.46 Automatic
IU PMG P 05:38:53.42 0.78 317.26 39.79 Automatic
IU CASY P 05:39:10.7 1.6 212.64 41.53 Automatic
IU TARA P 05:39:15.4 -5.12 359.48 43.26 Automatic
IU QSPA P 05:40:00.92 0.58 180.05 48.03 Automatic
IU MBWA P 05:40:09.27 0.29 277.7 49.2 Automatic
II KAPI P 05:41:28.67 1.44 292.41 60.06 Automatic
IU GUMO P 05:41:37.2 2.43 328.2 61.36 Automatic
IU POHA P 05:42:17.77 -0.54 31.69 68.07 Automatic
IU KIP P 05:42:21.22 -0.72 28.69 68.67 Automatic
II EFI P 05:43:08.52 -2.68 150.11 76.37 Automatic
II HOPE P 05:43:32.32 -1.71 162.91 80.5 Automatic
IU MAJO P 05:43:49.7 -3.45 332.38 84.74 Automatic
IU CHTO P 05:44:24.77 -1.21 294.26 91.44 Automatic
IU LVC P 05:44:37.37 -0.64 125.1 93.65 Automatic
II PFO P 05:45:01.32 0.68 52.58 99.23 Automatic
IU TUC P 05:45:13.57 1.32 56.87 101.78 Automatic
IU ANMO P 05:45:33.52 1.52 57.29 106.22 Automatic