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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2021/01/17 14:38
Universal datetime 2021/01/17 03:38
Latitude -15.42 ° ± 8 km
Longitude 167.96 ° ± 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
Nouméa  774 93060
Suva  1157 77366
Honiara  1094 56298
Bundaberg  1936 52472
Nandi  1043 42284
Arawa  1693 40266
Port Vila  259 35901
Gladstone  1984 30489
Tarawa  1935 28802
Labasa  1228 24187
Nukualofa  1886 22400
Maryborough  1943 20678
Luganville  85 13397
Gympie  1986 11027
Gizo  1457 6154

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 2 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.82
Azimuthal gap 75.1 °
Number of stations used 11
Number of phases used 11

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II MSVF P 03:41:20.12 1.17 104.93 9.95 Automatic
II WRAB P 03:45:25.42 0.26 256.96 32.28 Automatic
IU NWAO P 03:47:43.44 0.84 239.5 48.95 Automatic
G CCD P 03:49:30.80 -0.67 191.56 64.33 Automatic
IU QSPA P 03:50:33.47 -1.31 180.03 74.52 Automatic
IU CHTO P 03:50:44.72 1.09 294.41 76.05 Automatic
IU ULN P 03:51:21.82 0.13 323.82 83.27 Automatic
IU BILL P 03:51:20.87 -1.28 359.43 83.49 Automatic
II PFO P 03:51:40.49 -0.5 53.87 86.98 Automatic
IU TUC P 03:52:00.32 0.04 56.67 91.04 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 03:52:34.2 0.24 316.34 98.49 Automatic