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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2016/05/12 02:06
Universal datetime 2016/05/11 16:06
Latitude 11.79 ° ± 6 km
Longitude 144.78 ° ± 11 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
Jayapura  1647 134895
Sorong  2045 125535
Manokwari  1834 53190
Nabire  1964 43898
Mt. Hagen  1954 33623
Madang  1885 27419
Mendi  1988 26252
Kimbe  2008 18847
Goroka  1978 18503
Wewak  1702 18230
Kavieng  1724 14490
Vanimo  1647 11204
Kundiawa  1970 9383
Rabaul  1948 8074
Lorengau  1554 5806

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.87
Azimuthal gap 168.53 °
Number of stations used 14
Number of phases used 14

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU GUMO P 16:06:43.42 -0.3 2.72 1.8 Automatic
II WRAB P 16:12:48.62 -1.01 198.02 33.34 Automatic
IU CHTO P 16:14:27.47 1.38 284.92 44.64 Automatic
IU ULN P 16:14:51.7 0.63 326.38 47.86 Automatic
IU YAK P 16:15:15.82 -1.28 351.01 51.41 Automatic
IU BILL P 16:16:04.62 -0.73 9.36 58.04 Automatic
IU TIXI P 16:16:23.77 0.47 354.31 60.62 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 16:16:39.62 0.03 316.86 62.92 Automatic
II KURK P 16:16:57.97 -0.97 320.61 65.88 Automatic
II AAK P 16:17:10.37 0.28 311.48 67.58 Automatic
II NIL P 16:17:13.52 -0.56 301.75 68.18 Automatic
IU COLA P 16:17:25.32 1.78 24.68 69.81 Automatic
II BRVK P 16:17:32.67 -0.26 322.31 71.3 Automatic
IU CASY P 16:18:32.52 0.55 193.21 82.04 Automatic