Seismotectonics of the New Guinea Region and Vicinity
USGS. The Australia-Pacific plate boundary is over 4000 km long on the
northern margin, from the Sunda (Java) trench in the west to the
Solomon Islands in the east. The eastern section is over 2300 km long,
extending west from northeast of the Australian continent and the Coral
Sea until it intersects the east coast of Papua New Guinea. The
boundary is dominated by the general northward subduction of the
Australia plate...
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Event Time
- 2014-02-03 04:25:59 UTC
- 2014-02-03 14:25:59 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
- 2014-02-03 05:25:59 UTC+01:00 system time
Location
4.947°S 153.752°E depth=93.8km (58.3mi)
Nearby Cities
- 95km (59mi) SE of Taron, Papua New Guinea
- 177km (110mi) ESE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
- 242km (150mi) NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
- 405km (252mi) E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
- 845km (525mi) NW of Honiara, Solomon Islands
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