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Type Event
Magnitude 5.4 mb
Local datetime 2016/12/27 13:30
Universal datetime 2016/12/27 02:30
Latitude -10.01 ° ± 6 km
Longitude 161.07 ° ± 4 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  1523 283733
Nouméa  1473 93060
Lae  1592 76255
Honiara  138 56298
Arawa  736 40266
Port Vila  1159 35901
Popondetta  1414 28198
Madang  1767 27419
Kimbe  1301 18847
Kavieng  1400 14490
Luganville  900 13397
Rabaul  1176 8074
Gizo  511 6154
Lorengau  1762 5806
Kerema  1690 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.7
Azimuthal gap 61.7 °
Number of stations used 17
Number of phases used 17

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 02:30:44.17 1.08 297.24 1.24 Automatic
IU PMG P 02:33:38.87 3.75 271.33 13.72 Automatic
IU CTAO P 02:34:23.32 -0.68 233.07 17.48 Automatic
II MSVF P 02:34:35.82 2.81 117.01 18.2 Automatic
II WRAB P 02:36:06.97 -0.93 245.81 27.59 Automatic
II KAPI P 02:38:04.72 -1.09 273.82 41.23 Automatic
IU SBA P 02:41:18.17 -0.45 178.71 67.9 Automatic
IU ULN P 02:42:00.42 -0.43 325.8 74.97 Automatic
IU YAK P 02:42:05.37 -1.27 345.42 76.07 Automatic
IU BILL P 02:42:17.42 -0.96 2.05 78.17 Automatic
IU QSPA P 02:42:26.62 -2.78 180.02 79.92 Automatic
IU COLA P 02:42:47.97 -1.54 19.4 83.95 Automatic
IU TIXI P 02:42:49.82 -1.82 350.29 84.4 Automatic
II PFO P 02:43:17.12 0.02 55.66 89.36 Automatic
II KURK P 02:43:34.32 0.79 321.06 93.01 Automatic
IU TUC P 02:43:39.82 2.15 57.84 93.79 Automatic
IU ANMO P 02:43:56.82 1.34 55.73 97.73 Automatic