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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2016/12/02 12:00
Universal datetime 2016/12/02 01:00
Latitude -9.52 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 159.82 ° ± 6 km
Depth 54 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
Port Moresby  1386 283733
Nouméa  1578 93060
Lae  1446 76255
Honiara  17 56298
Arawa  593 40266
Port Vila  1292 35901
Popondetta  1274 28198
Madang  1620 27419
Kimbe  1154 18847
Kavieng  1257 14490
Luganville  1039 13397
Rabaul  1032 8074
Gizo  364 6154
Lorengau  1616 5806
Kerema  1548 5646

Past seismicity

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

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.14
Azimuthal gap 72.35 °
Number of stations used 11
Number of phases used 11

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 01:00:50.57 -0.04 57.43 0.16 Automatic
IU CTAO P 01:04:31.12 -1.41 229.56 16.82 Automatic
IU TARA P 01:04:32.94 -1.65 50.88 16.99 Automatic
II MSVF P 01:05:07.87 3.93 116.86 19.52 Automatic
II WRAB P 01:06:14.92 -0.19 244.14 26.68 Automatic
II KAPI P 01:08:14.7 3.43 273.56 39.97 Automatic
IU MBWA P 01:08:13.12 0.42 248.38 40.23 Automatic
IU SBA P 01:11:33.2 -3.66 178.43 68.42 Automatic
IU YAK P 01:12:17.97 1.01 345.91 75.29 Automatic
IU BILL P 01:12:30.82 0.11 2.53 77.73 Automatic
IU COLA P 01:13:02.2 -1.96 19.75 83.91 Automatic