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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2014/03/09 07:56
Universal datetime 2014/03/08 20:56
Latitude -10.13 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 161.29 ° ± 5 km
Depth 78 km (from location) ± 7 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Port Moresby  1548 283733
Nouméa  1451 93060
Lae  1619 76255
Mackay  1782 75922
Honiara  166 56298
Arawa  764 40266
Port Vila  1133 35901
Popondetta  1440 28198
Kimbe  1329 18847
Kavieng  1428 14490
Luganville  873 13397
Bowen  1779 10983
Rabaul  1204 8074
Gizo  539 6154
Kerema  1716 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.37
Azimuthal gap 63.06 °
Number of stations used 23
Number of phases used 23

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 20:57:21.49 -0.31 297.31 1.49 Automatic
IU CTAO P 21:00:57.27 1.12 233.75 17.59 Automatic
II MSVF P 21:00:59.37 -1.14 116.96 17.95 Automatic
II WRAB P 21:02:37.27 -0.78 246.15 27.75 Automatic
II TAU P 21:03:42.67 2.39 197.97 34.98 Automatic
IU MBWA P 21:04:34.82 -0.51 249.39 41.37 Automatic
IU NWAO P 21:05:16.52 1.12 233.68 46.42 Automatic
IU MAJO P 21:05:53.22 0.77 336.25 51.48 Automatic
IU INCN P 21:06:39.2 1.77 327.69 57.62 Automatic
IU CASY P 21:07:30.82 -1.7 199.99 65.7 Automatic
IU CHTO P 21:07:47.22 0.02 295.21 67.93 Automatic
IU ULN P 21:08:30.2 0.24 325.73 75.19 Automatic
IU YAK P 21:08:34.75 -0.48 345.34 76.24 Automatic
IU BILL P 21:08:45.86 -0.71 1.97 78.28 Automatic
II TLY P 21:08:51.72 -0.08 327.77 79.12 Automatic
IU QSPA P 21:08:54.32 -2 180.02 79.81 Automatic
IU COLA P 21:09:16.7 -1.11 19.34 83.99 Automatic
IU TIXI P 21:09:19.6 -0.82 350.23 84.55 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 21:09:46.89 -1.01 317.73 90.19 Automatic
II KURK P 21:10:00.62 -1.35 321.02 93.24 Automatic
IU TUC P 21:10:05.92 1.45 57.82 93.66 Automatic
IU ANMO P 21:10:26.7 3.76 55.72 97.61 Automatic
II BRVK P 21:10:25.92 -0.65 322.56 98.68 Automatic