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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2016/04/23 02:40
Universal datetime 2016/04/22 15:40
Latitude -10.48 ° ± 8 km
Longitude 164.90 ° ± 6 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  1945 283733
Nouméa  1314 93060
Suva  1687 77366
Honiara  555 56298
Nandi  1574 42284
Arawa  1131 40266
Port Vila  883 35901
Tarawa  1586 28802
Popondetta  1838 28198
Labasa  1699 24187
Kimbe  1716 18847
Kavieng  1785 14490
Luganville  609 13397
Rabaul  1570 8074
Gizo  925 6154

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.96
Azimuthal gap 120.56 °
Number of stations used 10
Number of phases used 10

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 15:41:40.82 3.81 281.63 4.99 Automatic
II MSVF P 15:43:52.87 3.46 121.15 14.67 Automatic
II WRAB P 15:46:38.82 -0.11 248.53 30.89 Automatic
IU CASY P 15:51:09.77 -2.47 200.87 66.61 Automatic
IU SBA P 15:51:15.12 -1.82 179.58 67.37 Automatic
IU CHTO P 15:51:41.94 -0.03 294.13 71.31 Automatic
IU ULN P 15:52:17.2 -0.06 324.43 77.52 Automatic
IU BILL P 15:52:21.27 -0.89 0.59 78.56 Automatic
IU TIXI P 15:52:58.17 -0.84 349.28 85.53 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 15:53:33.49 -1.05 317.15 92.85 Automatic