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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2017/02/17 20:21
Universal datetime 2017/02/17 11:21
Latitude -2.42 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 139.96 ° ± 7 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
Jayapura  83 134895
Sorong  980 125535
Lae  914 76255
Manokwari  677 53190
Nabire  505 43898
Mt. Hagen  607 33623
Madang  718 27419
Mendi  581 26252
Goroka  726 18503
Wewak  428 18230
Daru  824 15214
Vanimo  153 11204
Kundiawa  683 9383
Lorengau  815 5806
Kerema  892 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.97
Azimuthal gap 96.47 °
Number of stations used 15
Number of phases used 15

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU PMG P 11:23:51.97 0.11 134.61 10 Automatic
II WRAB P 11:25:40.82 -0.97 196.94 18.35 Automatic
IU CTAO P 11:25:48.47 2.53 161.27 18.71 Automatic
IU HNR P 11:26:11.44 -1.44 110.3 21.07 Automatic
IU ULN P 11:31:20.32 0.98 334.52 57.9 Automatic
IU MA2 P 11:31:51.67 0.53 6.14 62.57 Automatic
IU YAK P 11:32:07.37 0.66 354.7 64.92 Automatic
II NIL P 11:32:53.82 0.21 306.59 72.2 Automatic
II AAK P 11:33:04.12 0.47 315.86 73.94 Automatic
II KURK P 11:33:04.72 -0.68 324.75 74.29 Automatic
IU TIXI P 11:33:04.62 -0.8 356.39 74.4 Automatic
II BRVK P 11:33:36.82 -0.4 325.08 79.93 Automatic
IU COLA P 11:34:02.52 0.34 23.95 84.74 Automatic
IU QSPA P 11:34:15.2 -0.96 179.99 87.51 Automatic
II RAYN P 11:34:51.47 -0.55 293.41 95.05 Automatic