This event was automatically detected and need to be confirmed by one of our analysts.
Type Event
Magnitude 5.5 mb
Local datetime 2016/02/21 03:51
Universal datetime 2016/02/20 15:51
Latitude -21.81 ° ± 4 km
Longitude -179.57 ° ± 5 km
Depth 557 km (from location) ± 7 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
Auckland  1755 417910
Manukau  1767 362000
North Shore  1748 207865
Waitakere  1761 166237
Nouméa  1444 93060
Suva  457 77366
Whangarei  1653 50900
Nandi  545 42284
Port Vila  1347 35901
Labasa  607 24187
Nukualofa  457 22400
Luganville  1561 13397
Thames  1762 7136
Apia  1210 6940
Kerikeri  1616 5654

Past seismicity

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

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.88
Azimuthal gap 77.27 °
Number of stations used 35
Number of phases used 35

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 RAO P 15:53:15.94 -0.11 169.09 7.58 Automatic
IU AFI P 15:53:47.87 -1.17 44.46 10.83 Automatic
IU RAR P 15:55:04.32 0.07 91.82 18.41 Automatic
IU SNZO P 15:55:18.47 0.06 192.6 20.09 Automatic
IU XMAS P 15:57:05.12 0.51 44.95 32.19 Automatic
IU PMG P 15:57:23.42 0.61 285.95 34.26 Automatic
II TAU P 15:57:25.77 -0.15 224.71 34.66 Automatic
IU JOHN P 15:58:07.82 1.72 15.13 39.78 Automatic
II WRAB P 15:58:32.27 -0.97 263.74 42.93 Automatic
IU POHA P 15:59:08.67 0.68 31.19 47.75 Automatic
IU KIP P 15:59:11.2 0.71 27.37 48.07 Automatic
IU MIDW P 15:59:24.94 0.42 2.53 50.07 Automatic
IU SBA P 16:00:13.7 1.62 183.42 56.42 Automatic
II KAPI P 16:00:42.47 -0.2 276.57 60.96 Automatic
IU DAV P 16:00:43.97 1.51 291.92 61.01 Automatic
IU CASY P 16:00:48.62 -0.92 205.32 62.06 Automatic
IU MAJO P 16:01:41.7 -0.09 325.1 70.66 Automatic
IU ADK P 16:01:57.47 -0.7 1.85 73.73 Automatic
IU YSS P 16:02:15.95 0.85 334.62 76.7 Automatic
IU PET P 16:02:16.75 -0.71 346.77 77.19 Automatic
IU INCN P 16:02:23.37 1.01 319.09 77.93 Automatic
IU SLBS P 16:02:42.17 0 60.21 81.56 Automatic
II PFO P 16:02:42.27 -0.23 48.64 81.72 Automatic
II KDAK P 16:02:46.87 0.45 14.12 82.72 Automatic
IU COR P 16:02:54.47 1.57 36.56 83.89 Automatic
IU MA2 P 16:02:56.17 -1.26 345.43 84.94 Automatic
IU TUC P 16:02:59.67 0.23 52.26 85.1 Automatic
IU CHTO P 16:03:20.92 0.59 290.58 89.41 Automatic
IU ANMO P 16:03:19.72 -0.46 51.66 89.53 Automatic
IU COLA P 16:03:19.82 -1.62 12.9 90.06 Automatic
IU BILL P 16:03:22.62 -0.62 354.82 90.46 Automatic
IU YAK P 16:03:34.7 -1.14 338.67 93.02 Automatic
IU RSSD P 16:03:45.47 -0.71 44.27 95.29 Automatic
IU ULN P 16:03:46.97 -0.41 319.77 95.59 Automatic
IU TIXI P 16:04:04.52 -1.14 345.49 99.83 Automatic