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Type Event
Magnitude 5.4 mb
Local datetime 2016/11/15 19:30
Universal datetime 2016/11/15 06:30
Latitude -41.82 ° ± 8 km
Longitude 173.59 ° ± 11 km
Depth 20 km (from location) ± 24 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Christchurch  206 363926
Lower Hutt  130 101194
Palmerston North  235 75996
Porirua  131 50914
Wanganui  243 40268
Upper Hutt  142 38400
Ashburton  275 30100
Blenheim  46 26550
Paraparaumu  156 25263
Masterton  198 20698
Levin  195 19789
Hawera  256 11068
Kaiapoi  190 10200
Greymouth  208 9419
Wellington  115 5428

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 0 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.96
Azimuthal gap 123.5 °
Number of stations used 10
Number of phases used 10

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU SNZO P 06:30:53.62 -0.11 58.93 0.98 Automatic
II MSVF P 06:35:51.12 -0.33 10.35 24.38 Automatic
IU CTAO P 06:36:58.62 1.05 304.86 31.7 Automatic
IU SBA P 06:37:37.9 0.58 182.43 36.14 Automatic
II WRAB P 06:38:04.97 -0.87 291.28 39.64 Automatic
IU PMG P 06:38:08.52 1.48 316.78 39.88 Automatic
IU TARA P 06:38:32.99 -0.11 359.03 43.18 Automatic
IU MBWA P 06:39:22.19 -2 277.4 49.41 Automatic
II KAPI P 06:40:42.77 0.76 292.12 60.24 Automatic
IU MAJO P 06:43:05.72 -0.45 332.15 84.77 Automatic