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Type Event
Magnitude 5.5 mb
Local datetime 2021/01/24 16:47
Universal datetime 2021/01/24 05:47
Latitude -51.18 ° ± 4 km
Longitude 161.47 ° ± 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
Christchurch  1194 363926
Dunedin  888 114347
Lower Hutt  1514 101194
Hobart  1416 47700
Invercargill  733 47287
Ashburton  1117 30100
Timaru  1049 28007
Blenheim  1437 26550
Kingston  1405 14371
Oamaru  977 13000
Gore  789 12108
Queenstown  871 10442
Kaiapoi  1208 10200
Greymouth  1218 9419
Wellington  1499 5428

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.1
Azimuthal gap 140.24 °
Number of stations used 21
Number of phases used 21

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II TAU P 05:50:55.92 -1.09 305.23 12.66 Automatic
G DRV P 05:52:18.20 1.25 206.68 18.84 Automatic
G CCD P 05:53:51.5 -0.73 199.5 28.41 Automatic
IU CASY P 05:53:59.32 -0.41 219.68 29.29 Automatic
IU CTAO P 05:54:34.19 0.3 333.33 33.31 Automatic
II MSVF P 05:54:58.57 2.1 27.59 35.93 Automatic
IU NWAO P 05:55:06.4 0.88 282.31 36.82 Automatic
II WRAB P 05:55:10.99 -1.62 315.65 37.79 Automatic
IU QSPA P 05:55:20.77 -1.13 180.03 38.76 Automatic
IU AFI P 05:55:55.29 -0.57 39.79 43.06 Automatic
IU MBWA P 05:56:05.44 0.09 296.96 44.15 Automatic
IU TARA P 05:57:15.4 -0.02 14.31 53.43 Automatic
II KAPI P 05:57:47.79 1.07 308.35 57.71 Automatic
G AIS P 05:57:52.40 1.92 247.91 57.99 Automatic
G RER P 06:00:22.90 0.19 244.75 82.94 Automatic
GE VOI P 06:00:43.50 -0.63 237.43 87.21 Automatic
IU CHTO P 06:00:47.79 -1.35 302.86 88.71 Automatic
II ABPO P 06:00:54.92 0.5 239.55 89.4 Automatic
II SUR P 06:00:54.52 -1.05 212.37 89.56 Automatic
II PALK P 06:00:57.22 1.57 281.73 89.94 Automatic
IU MAJO P 06:00:53.7 -1.28 341.5 90.07 Automatic