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Type Event
Magnitude 5.4 mb
Local datetime 2016/09/17 10:20
Universal datetime 2016/09/17 01:20
Latitude -1.96 ° ± 4 km
Longitude 140.34 ° ± 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
Jayapura  75 134895
Sorong  1015 125535
Lae  908 76255
Manokwari  708 53190
Nabire  558 43898
Mt. Hagen  610 33623
Madang  705 27419
Mendi  591 26252
Goroka  723 18503
Wewak  407 18230
Daru  853 15214
Vanimo  135 11204
Kundiawa  682 9383
Lorengau  773 5806
Kerema  899 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.23
Azimuthal gap 85.64 °
Number of stations used 22
Number of phases used 22

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU PMG P 01:22:44.32 1.04 137.92 10.07 Automatic
IU GUMO P 01:24:07.22 1.81 15.99 16.19 Automatic
II WRAB P 01:24:37.7 -1.51 197.59 18.9 Automatic
IU CTAO P 01:24:40.87 0.84 162.72 19.03 Automatic
IU MBWA P 01:26:08.39 0.84 224.77 27.78 Automatic
IU MAJO P 01:27:38.32 -1.8 357.25 38.56 Automatic
II MSVF P 01:27:56.72 0.88 115.57 40.24 Automatic
II TAU P 01:28:04.52 0.48 172.26 41.42 Automatic
IU INCN P 01:28:06.22 2.08 343.49 41.44 Automatic
IU CHTO P 01:28:41.29 1.49 298.98 45.68 Automatic
IU ULN P 01:30:08.82 0.67 334.16 57.65 Automatic
IU YAK P 01:30:53.97 -0.54 354.49 64.51 Automatic
IU CASY P 01:31:14.47 -0.7 192.48 67.65 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 01:31:33.54 0.24 321.82 70.49 Automatic
II AAK P 01:31:54.62 0.8 315.68 73.88 Automatic
II KURK P 01:31:54.57 -0.48 324.57 74.14 Automatic
IU SBA P 01:32:11.64 -0.61 174.49 77.18 Automatic
II KDAK P 01:32:24.57 -1.89 29.94 79.71 Automatic
II BRVK P 01:32:26.67 -0.24 324.97 79.77 Automatic
IU COLA P 01:32:47.2 -2.82 23.92 84.17 Automatic
II UOSS P 01:32:57.27 -0.43 295.21 85.51 Automatic
II RAYN P 01:33:43.17 -0.14 293.45 95.21 Automatic