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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2017/03/17 05:25
Universal datetime 2017/03/16 18:25
Latitude -7.94 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 160.53 ° ± 6 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  1477 283733
Lae  1500 76255
Honiara  178 56298
Arawa  580 40266
Port Vila  1374 35901
Popondetta  1355 28198
Madang  1657 27419
Kimbe  1178 18847
Goroka  1685 18503
Kavieng  1228 14490
Luganville  1108 13397
Rabaul  1015 8074
Gizo  407 6154
Lorengau  1607 5806
Kerema  1619 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.8
Azimuthal gap 79.19 °
Number of stations used 13
Number of phases used 13

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 18:25:52.72 -0.67 200.79 1.61 Automatic
IU TARA P 18:29:06.64 3.39 53.6 15.47 Automatic
IU CTAO P 18:29:41.97 2.01 227.18 18.4 Automatic
II MSVF P 18:29:53.82 -0.7 121.6 19.68 Automatic
II WRAB P 18:31:15.37 -1.32 241.92 28.02 Automatic
II KAPI P 18:33:08.37 2.73 271.55 40.6 Automatic
IU ULN P 18:36:55.12 0.97 325.68 72.96 Automatic
IU YAK P 18:36:57.12 -2.23 345.51 73.93 Automatic
IU BILL P 18:37:10.27 -1.67 2.28 76.12 Automatic
IU COLA P 18:37:43.32 -2.11 19.63 82.18 Automatic
IU TIXI P 18:37:45.27 -0.48 350.39 82.27 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 18:38:14.47 -1.14 317.84 88.06 Automatic
II KURK P 18:38:30.87 1.24 321.17 91.06 Automatic