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Type Event
Magnitude 5.5 mb
Local datetime 2016/09/21 18:44
Universal datetime 2016/09/21 05:44
Latitude -18.04 ° ± 5 km
Longitude -175.38 ° ± 3 km
Depth 250 km (from location) ± 5 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Auckland  2298 417910
Manukau  2308 362000
North Shore  2292 207865
Waitakere  2307 166237
Nouméa  1956 93060
Suva  655 77366
Whangarei  2208 50900
Nandi  764 42284
Port Vila  1728 35901
Labasa  586 24187
Nukualofa  344 22400
Luganville  1880 13397
Thames  2294 7136
Apia  606 6940
Kerikeri  2178 5654

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.55
Azimuthal gap 50.53 °
Number of stations used 40
Number of phases used 40

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU AFI P 05:45:22.72 -4.13 40.46 5.39 Automatic
II MSVF P 05:45:41.87 3.94 271.68 6.26 Automatic
IU FUNA P 05:46:37.12 1.47 330.28 10.88 Automatic
IU RAR P 05:47:26.27 -0.27 104.75 15.03 Automatic
IU TARA P 05:48:43.52 -1.26 328.09 22.56 Automatic
IU HNR P 05:49:13.64 1.98 286.45 25.43 Automatic
IU CTAO P 05:50:44.17 -2.11 260.4 36.25 Automatic
IU PMG P 05:50:54.67 -0.58 278.26 37.33 Automatic
IU WAKE P 05:51:25.52 -0.44 333.8 41.28 Automatic
IU KIP P 05:51:40.62 1.23 24.06 42.97 Automatic
IU MIDW P 05:52:07.64 2.49 357.57 46.29 Automatic
II WRAB P 05:52:13.77 -2.51 259.19 47.39 Automatic
IU GUMO P 05:52:37.97 0.27 306.19 50.37 Automatic
IU SBA P 05:53:50.49 0.9 184.26 60.45 Automatic
IU MBWA P 05:53:50.94 -1.98 255.35 60.79 Automatic
II KAPI P 05:54:16.37 -1.36 273.04 64.58 Automatic
IU CASY P 05:54:32.42 -1.23 204.82 67.15 Automatic
IU ADK P 05:54:48.87 0.35 359.14 69.93 Automatic
IU MAJO P 05:54:48.82 -0.96 321.73 69.99 Automatic
IU YSS P 05:55:19.60 0.04 331.88 75.11 Automatic
IU SLBS P 05:55:28.12 0.84 59.03 76.25 Automatic
II PFO P 05:55:26.57 -0.3 47.24 76.27 Automatic
IU INCN P 05:55:35.92 0.72 316.48 77.79 Automatic
IU TUC P 05:55:45.87 0.16 50.89 79.67 Automatic
IU MA2 P 05:55:57.47 -1.28 343.46 82.37 Automatic
IU PMSA P 05:56:00.32 -0.75 156.39 82.37 Automatic
IU ANMO P 05:56:08.67 0.02 50.26 84.09 Automatic
IU COLA P 05:56:13.52 -1.18 11.35 85.54 Automatic
IU BILL P 05:56:21.97 -0.36 353.3 87.12 Automatic
IU RSSD P 05:56:35.72 -0.29 42.85 89.84 Automatic
IU HKT P 05:56:39.42 0.74 58.43 90.29 Automatic
IU YAK P 05:56:39.32 -1.43 337.42 90.99 Automatic
IU CHTO P 05:56:46.47 0.2 289.2 91.84 Automatic
IU TEIG P 05:56:56.19 2.11 69.87 93.55 Automatic
II JTS P 05:56:55.17 0.68 80.33 93.57 Automatic
IU ULN P 05:57:01.7 0.03 318.85 95.3 Automatic
IU CCM P 05:57:06.22 -0.91 52.04 96.56 Automatic
IU TIXI P 05:57:08.77 -0.17 344.78 97.2 Automatic
IU LVC P 05:57:15.27 2.72 116.77 97.45 Automatic
IU WVT P 05:57:18.92 2.59 54.7 98.61 Automatic