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Type Event
Magnitude 5.4 mb
Local datetime 2020/12/08 09:29
Universal datetime 2020/12/07 22:29
Latitude -8.19 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 159.00 ° ± 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  1307 283733
Lae  1336 76255
Honiara  173 56298
Arawa  437 40266
Port Vila  1460 35901
Popondetta  1186 28198
Madang  1498 27419
Kimbe  1022 18847
Goroka  1522 18503
Kavieng  1099 14490
Luganville  1203 13397
Rabaul  878 8074
Gizo  239 6154
Lorengau  1467 5806
Kerema  1452 5646

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 0 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.08
Azimuthal gap 116.3 °
Number of stations used 7
Number of phases used 7

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU HNR P 22:30:24.34 0.47 143.36 1.56 Automatic
II MSVF P 22:34:39.2 0.55 119.16 20.85 Automatic
II WRAB P 22:35:35.67 0.81 241.17 26.58 Automatic
G CCD P 22:41:04.100 -1.96 189.19 69.86 Automatic
IU ULN P 22:41:22.87 1.37 326.32 72.32 Automatic
IU BILL P 22:41:43.77 -1.14 2.86 76.44 Automatic
IU TIXI P 22:42:16.82 -0.09 350.81 82.27 Automatic