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Type Event
Magnitude 5.5 mb
Local datetime 2018/05/18 04:47
Universal datetime 2018/05/17 18:47
Latitude 13.03 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 145.46 ° ± 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
Jayapura  1799 134895
Sorong  2193 125535
Manokwari  1986 53190
Nabire  2119 43898
Mt. Hagen  2093 33623
Madang  2019 27419
Mendi  2129 26252
Kimbe  2118 18847
Goroka  2113 18503
Wewak  1845 18230
Kavieng  1824 14490
Vanimo  1798 11204
Kundiawa  2107 9383
Rabaul  2044 8074
Lorengau  1677 5806

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.62
Azimuthal gap 120.07 °
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 GUMO P 18:47:23.69 1.93 314.26 0.81 Automatic
IU MAJO P 18:52:25.52 1.77 345.78 24.41 Automatic
IU ULN P 18:55:40.7 1.51 325.39 47.21 Automatic
IU YAK P 18:56:01.22 -0.65 350.46 50.3 Automatic
IU BILL P 18:56:47.72 -1.39 9.21 56.71 Automatic
II PALK P 18:57:39.67 0.23 271.79 63.86 Automatic
II KURK P 18:57:47.82 -0.87 320.17 65.35 Automatic
II NIL P 18:58:06.57 -0.16 301.33 68.11 Automatic
IU COLA P 18:58:07.32 -0.65 24.79 68.42 Automatic
II BRVK P 18:58:21.77 -0.88 322.01 70.74 Automatic
IU CASY P 18:59:31.57 -0.47 193.41 83.4 Automatic
II LVZ P 18:59:42.97 -1.52 339.34 85.49 Automatic
IU KEV P 18:59:51.7 -1.26 342.27 87.09 Automatic
II PFO P 19:00:07.92 4.19 55.55 89.39 Automatic
II OBN P 19:00:03.22 -1.93 327.24 89.75 Automatic
IU SBA P 19:00:13.94 1.79 175.61 91.68 Automatic
IU KIEV P 19:00:30.82 -1.65 325.19 95.65 Automatic