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Type Event
Magnitude 5.3 mb
Local datetime 2019/12/18 14:56
Universal datetime 2019/12/18 01:56
Latitude -29.89 ° ± 4 km
Longitude -178.39 ° ± 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
Auckland  1000 417910
Manukau  1006 362000
North Shore  994 207865
Waitakere  1013 166237
Hamilton  1052 152641
Tauranga  1002 110338
Rotorua  1039 65901
Whangarei  940 50900
Gisborne  1027 34274
Nukualofa  1021 22400
Pukekohe  1022 21438
Whakatane  991 18602
Cambridge  1053 15192
Thames  979 7136
Kerikeri  931 5654

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.98
Azimuthal gap 132.74 °
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 RAO P 01:56:57.49 -2.72 31.82 0.76 Automatic
II MSVF P 01:59:44.62 1.05 344.25 12.57 Automatic
IU AFI P 02:00:45.29 1.55 22.33 17.11 Automatic
IU FUNA P 02:01:31.77 -1.26 353.47 21.49 Automatic
II TAU P 02:02:56.77 0.23 235.02 30.24 Automatic
IU CTAO P 02:03:23.4 -0.93 278.78 33.36 Automatic
IU PMG P 02:04:02.92 -1.38 295.3 38.12 Automatic
II WRAB P 02:04:48.52 -2.27 271.86 43.69 Automatic
G DRV P 02:04:53.0 -3.2 202.08 44.41 Automatic
IU SBA P 02:05:29.49 1.76 184.14 48.42 Automatic
G CCD P 02:06:02.40 -1.73 195.84 53.22 Automatic
IU CASY P 02:06:20.52 1.11 207.57 55.29 Automatic
IU MBWA P 02:06:23.14 -0.68 263.49 55.88 Automatic
II KAPI P 02:07:18.29 4.34 280.22 63.2 Automatic
IU MAJO P 02:08:41.62 -0.18 325.63 77.92 Automatic
IU TUC P 02:09:42.89 2.27 51.4 89.27 Automatic
IU CHTO P 02:10:01.67 2.03 289.9 93.21 Automatic