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Type Event
Magnitude 5.5 mb
Local datetime 2016/12/18 16:24
Universal datetime 2016/12/18 02:24
Latitude -23.35 ° ± 8 km
Longitude -176.08 ° ± 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
Auckland  1735 417910
Manukau  1743 362000
North Shore  1729 207865
Waitakere  1746 166237
Tauranga  1755 110338
Suva  811 77366
Whangarei  1655 50900
Nandi  914 42284
Port Vila  1740 35901
Labasa  902 24187
Nukualofa  260 22400
Whakatane  1749 18602
Thames  1724 7136
Apia  1148 6940
Kerikeri  1632 5654

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.38
Azimuthal gap 94.93 °
Number of stations used 9
Number of phases used 9

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II MSVF P 02:26:43.52 4.32 314.51 7.84 Automatic
IU RAR P 02:28:20.12 -0.59 85.12 15.24 Automatic
IU CTAO P 02:31:37.27 -1.39 267.93 35.04 Automatic
IU PMG P 02:31:59.57 -2.07 285.45 37.77 Automatic
II WRAB P 02:33:06.72 -2.37 264.31 45.97 Automatic
IU MBWA P 02:34:43.74 -1.76 258.52 58.94 Automatic
IU CASY P 02:35:09.12 2.67 205.87 62.07 Automatic
IU QSPA P 02:35:38.87 2.75 180.05 66.6 Automatic
IU COLA P 02:37:45.62 -1.56 11.59 90.88 Automatic