Un séisme en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée

Earthquake Details

Magnitude 6.2

Date-Time Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 23:15:24 UTC

Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 09:15:24 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 6.683°S, 147.307°E

Depth 70.7 km (43.9 miles)

Region EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Distances 35 km (20 miles) ENE of Lae, New Guinea, PNG

220 km (135 miles) ESE of Goroka, New Guinea, PNG

310 km (190 miles) N of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea

2385 km (1480 miles) NNW of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 12.7 km (7.9 miles); depth +/- 4.7 km (2.9 miles)

Parameters NST=427, Nph=520, Dmin=923 km, Rmss=1.08 sec, Gp= 11°,

M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9

Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010veb7