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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2022/05/17 13:44
Universal datetime 2022/05/17 01:44
Latitude -56.49 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 177.31 ° ± 9 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  1478 363926
Dunedin  1271 114347
Lower Hutt  1709 101194
Porirua  1718 50914
Invercargill  1280 47287
Upper Hutt  1715 38400
Ashburton  1454 30100
Timaru  1411 28007
Blenheim  1683 26550
Oamaru  1340 13000
Gore  1292 12108
Queenstown  1409 10442
Kaiapoi  1495 10200
Greymouth  1618 9419
Wellington  1699 5428

Past seismicity

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

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1
Azimuthal gap 84.86 °
Number of stations used 10
Number of phases used 10

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
G DRV P 01:49:00.65 1.71 224.5 20.03 Automatic
IU SBA P 01:49:15.62 -1 185.99 21.67 Automatic
G CCD P 01:50:09.30 -0.78 207.03 27.23 Automatic
IU CASY P 01:50:50.97 1.16 224.73 31.69 Automatic
IU QSPA P 01:51:04.67 -0.54 180.07 33.45 Automatic
II WRAB P 01:53:05.79 -1.39 301.04 48.38 Automatic
IU TRQA P 01:55:57.47 0.73 134.95 73.03 Automatic
IU POHA P 01:56:31.69 0.82 25.9 79.6 Automatic
II SUR P 01:57:20.42 -0.81 199.69 88.92 Automatic
IU OTAV P 01:58:01.77 0.1 101.82 98.01 Automatic