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Type Event
Magnitude 5.5 mb
Local datetime 2016/09/24 20:09
Universal datetime 2016/09/24 11:09
Latitude -1.55 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 140.76 ° ± 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  109 134895
Sorong  1057 125535
Lae  898 76255
Manokwari  748 53190
Nabire  616 43898
Mt. Hagen  612 33623
Madang  691 27419
Mendi  601 26252
Goroka  718 18503
Wewak  389 18230
Daru  880 15214
Vanimo  140 11204
Kundiawa  680 9383
Lorengau  728 5806
Kerema  903 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.56
Azimuthal gap 71.8 °
Number of stations used 23
Number of phases used 23

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU CTAO P 11:14:07.42 -1.37 164.2 19.3 Automatic
IU HNR P 11:14:24.39 -0.2 113.16 20.65 Automatic
IU MBWA P 11:15:41.34 2.79 224.77 28.36 Automatic
IU MAJO P 11:17:02.17 -0.49 356.68 38.17 Automatic
IU FUNA P 11:17:10.22 -0.47 101.69 38.89 Automatic
IU INCN P 11:17:28.32 0.6 342.88 41.16 Automatic
IU CHTO P 11:18:05.42 -1.54 298.42 45.85 Automatic
IU AFI P 11:18:29.32 1.22 107.28 48.51 Automatic
IU YSS P 11:18:26.45 0.16 1.83 48.54 Automatic
IU ULN P 11:19:32.97 0.31 333.8 57.46 Automatic
IU MA2 P 11:20:01.87 0.75 5.74 61.63 Automatic
IU YAK P 11:20:18.7 0.17 354.25 64.14 Automatic
IU ADK P 11:20:20.72 1.14 27.6 64.33 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 11:20:57.84 -0.89 321.6 70.43 Automatic
IU TIXI P 11:21:17.82 0.81 356.12 73.59 Automatic
II AAK P 11:21:19.17 -0.46 315.5 73.88 Automatic
IU SBA P 11:21:42.17 2.1 174.58 77.55 Automatic
II KDAK P 11:21:49.42 0.25 29.9 79.15 Automatic
II BRVK P 11:21:51.17 -1.03 324.85 79.68 Automatic
IU COLA P 11:22:11.67 -1.18 23.88 83.63 Automatic
II UOSS P 11:22:21.62 -2.89 295.16 85.72 Automatic
IU QSPA P 11:22:33.12 -3.25 180 88.38 Automatic
II RAYN P 11:23:13.57 3.46 293.48 95.43 Automatic