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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2017/02/24 20:44
Universal datetime 2017/02/24 09:44
Latitude -9.50 ° ± 10 km
Longitude 160.32 ° ± 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
Port Moresby  1442 283733
Nouméa  1557 93060
Lae  1500 76255
Honiara  41 56298
Arawa  637 40266
Port Vila  1256 35901
Popondetta  1329 28198
Madang  1672 27419
Kimbe  1205 18847
Kavieng  1300 14490
Luganville  999 13397
Rabaul  1076 8074
Gizo  413 6154
Lorengau  1663 5806
Kerema  1603 5646

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 0 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.69
Azimuthal gap 210.83 °
Number of stations used 10
Number of phases used 10

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 09:44:24.92 -0.32 278.74 0.37 Automatic
IU PMG P 09:47:22.47 0.72 269.31 12.98 Automatic
IU CTAO P 09:48:17.2 -0.38 230.45 17.22 Automatic
II WRAB P 09:50:01.12 0.59 244.44 27.14 Automatic
IU MA2 P 09:55:24.2 -0.04 354.85 69.5 Automatic
IU YAK P 09:55:59.77 0.31 345.7 75.39 Automatic
IU BILL P 09:56:13.2 0.61 2.34 77.68 Automatic
IU COLA P 09:56:45.12 0.09 19.62 83.71 Automatic
IU TIXI P 09:56:45.37 0.21 350.48 83.77 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 09:57:10.27 -1.78 317.9 89.08 Automatic