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Type Event
Magnitude 5.9 mb
Local datetime 2016/12/09 05:03
Universal datetime 2016/12/08 18:03
Latitude -9.96 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 161.22 ° ± 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
Port Moresby  1540 283733
Nouméa  1471 93060
Lae  1607 76255
Honiara  151 56298
Arawa  748 40266
Port Vila  1152 35901
Popondetta  1431 28198
Madang  1781 27419
Kimbe  1315 18847
Kavieng  1411 14490
Luganville  892 13397
Rabaul  1187 8074
Gizo  524 6154
Lorengau  1774 5806
Kerema  1706 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.34
Azimuthal gap 115.9 °
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 CTAO P 18:07:10.82 3.1 233.22 17.63 Automatic
II MSVF P 18:07:13.22 -0.32 117.32 18.08 Automatic
II WRAB P 18:08:50.12 -1.06 245.82 27.75 Automatic
IU MBWA P 18:10:46.7 -2.62 249.2 41.37 Automatic
II KAPI P 18:10:47.87 -1.04 273.74 41.38 Automatic
IU MAJO P 18:12:05.32 0.5 336.27 51.3 Automatic
IU ULN P 18:14:43.72 0.71 325.73 75.02 Automatic
IU YAK P 18:14:48.37 -0.12 345.36 76.06 Automatic
IU BILL P 18:15:00.37 0.39 2 78.12 Automatic
II PALK P 18:15:23.22 0.03 278.89 82.01 Automatic
IU COLA P 18:15:31.32 0.41 19.36 83.86 Automatic