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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2015/12/13 01:46
Universal datetime 2015/12/12 14:46
Latitude -9.84 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 160.73 ° ± 6 km
Depth 103 km (from location) ± 5 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Port Moresby  1486 283733
Nouméa  1504 93060
Lae  1552 76255
Honiara  96 56298
Arawa  695 40266
Port Vila  1198 35901
Popondetta  1376 28198
Madang  1726 27419
Kimbe  1260 18847
Kavieng  1359 14490
Luganville  940 13397
Rabaul  1135 8074
Gizo  469 6154
Lorengau  1720 5806
Kerema  1651 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.68
Azimuthal gap 69.08 °
Number of stations used 10
Number of phases used 10

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 14:46:51.27 -0.73 297.61 0.87 Automatic
IU TARA P 14:50:16.97 -0.28 47.98 16.52 Automatic
IU CTAO P 14:50:28.57 1.63 232.06 17.31 Automatic
II MSVF P 14:50:43.27 2.16 117.06 18.57 Automatic
II WRAB P 14:52:07.57 -0.2 245.31 27.36 Automatic
IU ULN P 14:58:01.47 2.1 325.91 74.64 Automatic
IU YAK P 14:58:06.2 0.4 345.55 75.82 Automatic
IU BILL P 14:58:17.82 -0.03 2.18 78.01 Automatic
IU QSPA P 14:58:26.82 -3.72 180.02 80.09 Automatic
IU COLA P 14:58:48.12 -1.33 19.5 83.9 Automatic