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Type Event
Magnitude 5.1 mb
Local datetime 2014/12/09 00:08
Universal datetime 2014/12/08 15:08
Latitude -2.53 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 140.29 ° ± 7 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
Jayapura  46 134895
Sorong  1018 125535
Lae  877 76255
Manokwari  716 53190
Nabire  538 43898
Mt. Hagen  571 33623
Madang  680 27419
Mendi  547 26252
Goroka  689 18503
Wewak  389 18230
Daru  797 15214
Vanimo  115 11204
Kundiawa  647 9383
Lorengau  780 5806
Kerema  857 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.59
Azimuthal gap 101.52 °
Number of stations used 18
Number of phases used 18

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU PMG P 15:11:11.97 0.67 135.47 9.69 Automatic
II WRAB P 15:13:04.77 -0.61 197.96 18.34 Automatic
IU CTAO P 15:13:07.17 -0.05 162.07 18.5 Automatic
IU HNR P 15:13:33.9 0.25 110.31 20.73 Automatic
IU MAJO P 15:16:17.52 -0.48 357.35 39.12 Automatic
IU CHTO P 15:17:14.89 0.11 299.49 45.91 Automatic
IU YSS P 15:17:41.30 0.03 2.22 49.54 Automatic
IU ULN P 15:18:45.62 0.89 334.35 58.14 Automatic
II TLY P 15:19:15.37 0.99 335.33 62.46 Automatic
IU YAK P 15:19:30.95 -0.37 354.54 65.07 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 15:20:09.4 0.07 321.96 70.91 Automatic
II NIL P 15:20:19.47 0.21 306.54 72.53 Automatic
II AAK P 15:20:30.17 1.04 315.8 74.25 Automatic
IU TIXI P 15:20:29.7 -0.81 356.29 74.53 Automatic
II KURK P 15:20:30.32 -0.4 324.68 74.57 Automatic
II BRVK P 15:21:02.17 -0.24 325.03 80.21 Automatic
IU COLA P 15:21:24.67 -1.04 23.91 84.71 Automatic
IU QSPA P 15:21:38.87 -0.26 179.99 87.4 Automatic