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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2016/11/05 04:29
Universal datetime 2016/11/04 17:29
Latitude -6.60 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 155.43 ° ± 5 km
Depth 76 km (from location) ± 8 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Port Moresby  962 283733
Lae  934 76255
Honiara  589 56298
Arawa  44 40266
Mt. Hagen  1244 33623
Popondetta  828 28198
Madang  1079 27419
Kimbe  597 18847
Goroka  1113 18503
Kavieng  678 14490
Kundiawa  1161 9383
Rabaul  451 8074
Gizo  227 6154
Lorengau  1036 5806
Kerema  1070 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.82
Azimuthal gap 97.87 °
Number of stations used 11
Number of phases used 11

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 17:30:30.32 -0.15 122.71 5.3 Automatic
IU PMG P 17:31:15.92 -0.59 250.56 8.66 Automatic
IU CTAO P 17:32:57.32 1.52 212.56 16.16 Automatic
II WRAB P 17:34:24.22 -1.06 234.87 24.41 Automatic
II MSVF P 17:34:28.27 0.06 118.84 24.72 Automatic
IU ULN P 17:40:11.47 0.69 327.52 69.06 Automatic
IU YAK P 17:40:25.82 0.89 347.59 71.45 Automatic
IU SBA P 17:40:26.67 0.7 177.5 71.5 Automatic
IU TIXI P 17:41:14.47 -0.28 351.78 80.16 Automatic
IU COLA P 17:41:27.77 -0.52 20.97 82.68 Automatic
IU QSPA P 17:41:31.12 -1.24 180.01 83.33 Automatic