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Magnitude 5.6 NORTHERN COOK ISLANDS
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 18:20:27 UTC

Magnitude 5.6
Date-Time Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 18:20:27 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 07:20:27 AM local time at epicenter

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Location 12.19S 161.60W
Depth 10.0 kilometers
Region NORTHERN COOK ISLANDS
Distances 485 km (300 miles) ESE of Pukapuka, Cook Islands
530 km (330 miles) SW of Penrhyn Atoll, Cook Islands
1020 km (630 miles) NNW of RAROTONGA, Cook Islands
1425 km (880 miles) WNW of PAPEETE, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Location Uncertainty Error estimate: horizontal +/- 80.0 km; depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst=28, Nph=28, Dmin=3573.6 km, Rmss=1.66 sec, Erho=80.0 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=163.3 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID usmdbp

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