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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2016/04/09 20:59
Universal datetime 2016/04/09 09:59
Latitude -9.53 ° ± 8 km
Longitude 160.70 ° ± 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
Port Moresby  1483 283733
Nouméa  1537 93060
Lae  1542 76255
Honiara  83 56298
Arawa  674 40266
Port Vila  1225 35901
Popondetta  1371 28198
Madang  1714 27419
Kimbe  1245 18847
Kavieng  1337 14490
Luganville  966 13397
Rabaul  1114 8074
Gizo  454 6154
Lorengau  1701 5806
Kerema  1645 5646

Past seismicity

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

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 3.21
Azimuthal gap 159.11 °
Number of stations used 9
Number of phases used 9

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 09:59:19.39 0.49 277.03 0.75 Automatic
IU PET P 10:09:29.95 3.44 358.61 62.58 Automatic
IU CHTO P 10:10:02.49 4.2 295.19 67.15 Automatic
IU SBA P 10:10:06.14 0.69 178.63 68.39 Automatic
IU ULN P 10:10:37.42 -3.79 325.87 74.37 Automatic
IU BILL P 10:10:56.27 -3.35 2.2 77.71 Automatic
IU QSPA P 10:11:15.2 -0.74 180.02 80.4 Automatic
IU COLA P 10:11:35.42 3.77 19.52 83.62 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 10:11:55.74 -4.71 317.83 89.35 Automatic