This event was automatically detected and need to be confirmed by one of our analysts.
Type Event
Magnitude 5.1 mb
Local datetime 2016/01/27 01:47
Universal datetime 2016/01/26 15:47
Latitude -5.45 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 153.83 ° ± 7 km
Depth 10 km (from location) ± 0.0 km

Have you felt an earthquake ?

You can participate to science by bringing your testimony.

Testify !
See the seismogram of this event.

Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Port Moresby  856 283733
Lae  770 76255
Honiara  807 56298
Arawa  211 40266
Mt. Hagen  1065 33623
Popondetta  717 28198
Madang  892 27419
Kimbe  408 18847
Goroka  937 18503
Kavieng  461 14490
Kundiawa  984 9383
Rabaul  232 8074
Gizo  444 6154
Lorengau  819 5806
Kerema  925 5646

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 0 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.99
Azimuthal gap 81.58 °
Number of stations used 17
Number of phases used 17

Webservices

The data of this event are available in various formats (QuakeML, GeoJSON and text) through the following links :

QuakeML GeoJSON Text

Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU PMG P 15:49:45.37 -0.11 238.69 7.7 Automatic
IU CTAO P 15:51:46.7 3.45 206.01 16.39 Automatic
II WRAB P 15:53:03.87 -2.51 230.83 23.84 Automatic
IU FUNA P 15:53:16.69 -4.24 98.43 25.36 Automatic
IU MBWA P 15:54:57.19 -2.25 241.31 36.58 Automatic
IU CHTO P 15:57:53.79 -1.17 295.71 59.24 Automatic
IU MA2 P 15:58:33.17 0.8 358.29 65.07 Automatic
IU ULN P 15:58:47.67 0.75 327.98 67.23 Automatic
IU YAK P 15:59:04.42 0.71 348.22 69.99 Automatic
IU BILL P 15:59:29.67 1.58 4.87 74.05 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 16:00:11.74 -0.31 318.92 81.77 Automatic
IU COLA P 16:00:16.72 3.09 21.39 82.18 Automatic
IU QSPA P 16:00:29.2 2.94 180.01 84.48 Automatic
II KURK P 16:00:27.72 -0.78 322.08 84.98 Automatic
II NIL P 16:00:29.42 -0.82 304.51 85.22 Automatic
II AAK P 16:00:33.42 -0.01 313.55 85.91 Automatic
II BRVK P 16:00:53.92 -1.11 323.33 90.49 Automatic