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Type Event
Magnitude 5.3 mb
Local datetime 2016/12/13 16:38
Universal datetime 2016/12/13 05:38
Latitude -10.68 ° ± 6 km
Longitude 161.25 ° ± 5 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  1546 283733
Nouméa  1396 93060
Lae  1628 76255
Mackay  1736 75922
Honiara  198 56298
Arawa  796 40266
Port Vila  1091 35901
Popondetta  1442 28198
Kimbe  1348 18847
Kavieng  1460 14490
Luganville  836 13397
Bowen  1737 10983
Rabaul  1233 8074
Gizo  562 6154
Kerema  1720 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.14
Azimuthal gap 119.75 °
Number of stations used 14
Number of phases used 14

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 05:39:23.19 2.19 314.03 1.78 Automatic
IU CTAO P 05:42:51.72 0.77 235.11 17.23 Automatic
II MSVF P 05:42:58.97 1.42 115.36 17.74 Automatic
II WRAB P 05:44:35.27 -1.73 247.09 27.49 Automatic
II KAPI P 05:46:38.37 0.69 274.54 41.46 Automatic
IU MAJO P 05:47:58.52 0.6 336.47 51.97 Automatic
IU ULN P 05:50:34.72 0.1 325.83 75.62 Automatic
IU YAK P 05:50:40.2 -0.55 345.39 76.76 Automatic
IU BILL P 05:50:51.52 -0.52 1.98 78.83 Automatic
IU COLA P 05:51:21.22 -1.19 19.33 84.52 Automatic
IU TIXI P 05:51:24.32 -0.79 350.25 85.09 Automatic
II PFO P 05:51:48.37 0.2 55.62 89.59 Automatic
II KURK P 05:52:04.52 -1.91 321.01 93.65 Automatic
IU TUC P 05:52:09.32 0.71 57.85 93.99 Automatic