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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2018/03/16 04:58
Universal datetime 2018/03/15 18:58
Latitude -5.92 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 142.05 ° ± 8 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  690 283733
Jayapura  403 134895
Lae  554 76255
Nabire  778 43898
Mt. Hagen  240 33623
Popondetta  754 28198
Madang  421 27419
Mendi  179 26252
Goroka  370 18503
Wewak  315 18230
Daru  377 15214
Vanimo  366 11204
Kundiawa  323 9383
Lorengau  723 5806
Kerema  474 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.62
Azimuthal gap 106.92 °
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 CTAO P 19:02:02.67 2.19 164.3 14.75 Automatic
II KAPI P 19:03:30.32 0.66 271.22 22.21 Automatic
II MSVF P 19:05:39.82 -3.54 111.78 37.08 Automatic
IU ULN P 19:08:51.22 -0.29 334.15 61.95 Automatic
IU MA2 P 19:09:18.62 1.68 4.83 65.86 Automatic
IU YAK P 19:09:38.92 4.41 353.81 68.61 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 19:10:09.32 -2.52 322.04 74.66 Automatic
IU BILL P 19:10:21.37 2.79 9.16 75.95 Automatic
II KURK P 19:10:30.22 -2.5 324.68 78.35 Automatic
II BRVK P 19:10:59.92 -2.89 324.97 83.99 Automatic