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Type Event
Magnitude 5.3 mb
Local datetime 2015/04/06 06:51
Universal datetime 2015/04/05 20:51
Latitude -5.43 ° ± 4 km
Longitude 152.52 ° ± 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
Port Moresby  738 283733
Lae  629 76255
Honiara  932 56298
Arawa  348 40266
Mt. Hagen  921 33623
Popondetta  599 28198
Madang  747 27419
Kimbe  264 18847
Goroka  794 18503
Kavieng  368 14490
Kundiawa  840 9383
Rabaul  142 8074
Gizo  561 6154
Lorengau  693 5806
Kerema  789 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.5
Azimuthal gap 73.13 °
Number of stations used 27
Number of phases used 27

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU PMG P 20:53:21.12 1.44 232.9 6.64 Automatic
IU HNR P 20:53:46.82 3.12 119.01 8.38 Automatic
IU CTAO P 20:55:25.2 0.17 202.01 15.87 Automatic
IU GUMO P 20:56:22.47 3.34 338.29 20.48 Automatic
II WRAB P 20:56:44.17 -1.13 228.98 22.85 Automatic
IU MBWA P 20:58:38.62 -0.03 240.55 35.45 Automatic
II TAU P 20:58:56.2 -0.95 186.22 37.76 Automatic
IU TATO P 20:59:41.67 2.14 316.59 42.83 Automatic
IU MAJO P 20:59:46.47 -2.14 343.4 44.06 Automatic
IU INCN P 21:00:29.97 0.62 332.76 49.22 Automatic
IU YSS P 21:00:58.35 0.31 351.68 53.1 Automatic
IU CHTO P 21:01:36.57 0.94 296.17 58.06 Automatic
IU MA2 P 21:02:19.47 -1.48 359.02 65.02 Automatic
IU ULN P 21:02:31.82 0.49 328.58 66.53 Automatic
IU YAK P 21:02:50.47 -0.41 348.81 69.71 Automatic
II TLY P 21:02:57.67 0.73 330.32 70.63 Automatic
IU SBA P 21:03:09.74 -0.59 176.89 72.81 Automatic
IU BILL P 21:03:16.47 -1.09 5.36 74.15 Automatic
II KDAK P 21:03:33.47 -0.83 26.59 76.99 Automatic
IU TIXI P 21:03:41.37 -1.65 352.59 78.61 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 21:03:56.2 -0.32 319.19 80.91 Automatic
IU COLA P 21:04:02.27 -2.66 21.68 82.64 Automatic
II NIL P 21:04:14.7 0.4 304.7 84.14 Automatic
IU QSPA P 21:04:13.7 -1.97 180.01 84.5 Automatic
II AAK P 21:04:17.87 0.32 313.74 84.96 Automatic
II BRVK P 21:04:39.27 -0.96 323.45 89.7 Automatic
IU RSSD P 21:05:44.62 2.19 45.87 103.42 Automatic