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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2019/01/20 04:37
Universal datetime 2019/01/19 18:37
Latitude -5.16 ° ± 10 km
Longitude 142.15 ° ± 18 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  732 283733
Jayapura  332 134895
Lae  563 76255
Nabire  764 43898
Mt. Hagen  242 33623
Popondetta  783 28198
Madang  403 27419
Mendi  198 26252
Goroka  372 18503
Wewak  243 18230
Daru  453 15214
Vanimo  289 11204
Kundiawa  325 9383
Lorengau  667 5806
Kerema  510 5646

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.74
Azimuthal gap 161.48 °
Number of stations used 9
Number of phases used 9

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU ULN P 18:47:25.17 0.33 333.92 61.32 Automatic
IU YAK P 18:48:07.37 -0.1 353.72 67.88 Automatic
G CCD P 18:48:26.40 0.2 185.04 70.78 Automatic
IU BILL P 18:48:53.27 1.46 9.15 75.19 Automatic
II NIL P 18:48:55.77 0.4 306.7 75.59 Automatic
IU TIXI P 18:49:04.2 0.25 355.74 77.29 Automatic
II KURK P 18:49:06.72 -0.52 324.56 77.79 Automatic
II BRVK P 18:49:36.77 -0.79 324.9 83.43 Automatic
IU COLA P 18:49:50.87 -1.22 23.56 86.37 Automatic