Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 5.3 MOLUCCA SEA
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 13:23:15 UTC

Historic Moment Tensor Solutions World Location
Major Tectonic Boundaries: Subduction Zones -purple, Ridges -red and Transform Faults -green

The most recent (20 or less) USGS Moment Tensor Solutions are shown.
Data from the Source Parameter Database.

                        E P I C E N T E R   |          MOMENT  |    P R I N C I P A L  A X E S       |N O D A L  P L A N E S | 
     DATE    TIME (UTC)   LAT      LONG  SRC|DEPTH     VAL  EX |     T            N            P     |     1           2     | %  SRC
  YR  MO DA HR MN SEC     deg      deg      |  km  Mw     Nm   |VAL  PL AZM  VAL  PL AZM  VAL  PL AZM|STK DP SLIP STK DP SLIP| DC
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 2009 05 13 08:54:54.03   4.431  126.931 PDE| 40.0 5.6 3.0  17 |3.12 53 292 -0.26 26 161 -2.85 23  59|350 74  117 108 32   32| 83 GS              
 2009 06 14 05:58:43.27   5.361  126.438 PDE| 35.0 6.0 1.3  18 |1.15 60 343  0.20 28 177 -1.36  6  84| 19 57  125 146 46   48| 71 GS              
 2009 06 28 14:19:30.00   1.381  122.204 PDE| 23.0 5.5 2.1  17 |2.02 49 183  0.10 12  78 -2.12 37 338| 15 14   26 259 84  103| 91 GS              
 2009 07 01 21:10:44.44   1.052  125.963 PDE| 37.0 5.7 4.9  17 |4.05 67 158  1.40 22 348 -5.45  3 256|325 46   59 186 52  118| 49 GS              
 2009 07 20 15:19:47.64   2.301  126.940 PDE| 47.0 5.5 2.4  17 |2.30 64 186  0.17 25 354 -2.46  4  86|202 46  127 335 55   58| 86 GS              
 2009 09 18 18:34:22.14   1.755  127.189 PDE| 98.0 5.7 5.3  17 |6.00 33 173 -2.02 28  62 -3.99 43 301|319 29  -12  60 84 -118| 33 GS              
 2009 10 07 21:41:13.27   4.079  122.371 PDE|577.0 6.7 1.6  19 |1.60 35 106 -0.02  3 198 -1.58 54 292|181 10 -108  19 80  -87| 98 GS              
 2009 10 13 11:38: 5.31   2.930  128.232 PDE| 32.0 5.9 9.1  17 |8.98 13  44  0.22 60 288 -9.19 24 141|181 62   -8 275 83 -152| 95 GS              
 2009 11 28 18:10:20.63   5.326  126.288 PDE| 21.0 5.8 7.3  17 |7.38 38 323 -0.22 32 204 -7.15 35  87|118 32    3  25 88  122| 94 GS              
 2010 03 14 00:57:44.70  -1.692  128.135 PDE| 53.0 6.4 5.0  18 |4.72 32 353  0.48 55 194 -5.20  9  90| 38 75  149 137 60   17| 82 GS              
 2010 04 05 10:05:44.63  -0.183  125.009 PDE|                  |     47  26                    29 151| 85 80  120 192 31   19|    GS              
 2010 04 17 07:22:59.27   3.739  126.585 PDE| 35.0 5.3 1.1  17 |0.86  9 341  0.42 71 222 -1.28 15  74|117 72   -5 209 86 -162| 34 GS              
 2010 04 17 10:02:23.23   3.682  126.546 PDE| 35.0 5.3 1.0  17 |0.88 11 348  0.27 74 213 -1.15 10  80|125 75    1  35 90  165| 53 GS              
 2010 04 24 07:41: 0.41  -1.912  128.122 PDE| 28.0 5.9 7.7  17 |5.83 53 316  2.92 32 165 -8.74 14  66|120 42   36   2 67  126| 33 GS              
 2010 05 07 07:39:29.82   3.559  127.982 PDE|140.0 5.6 3.0  17 |2.71 78 178  0.60 10 336 -3.31  4  67|328 50   76 170 42  107| 64 GS              
 2010 05 08 05:39:28.08  -0.732  122.485 PDE| 20.0 5.6 3.4  17 |3.59 19   1 -0.51 70 183 -3.08  0  91| 45 77  166 138 76   13| 72 GS              
 2010 05 16 00:33: 6.35   0.511  124.657 PDE|123.0 5.8 6.3  17 |4.38 51 306  2.88  3  40 -7.26 37 133| 40 83   87 244  8  114| 21 GS              
 2010 06 09 08:57:41.22   1.944  127.167 PDE| 94.0 5.3 1.3  17 |1.38 48 177 -0.32 33  38 -1.07 21 293|341 38   27 230 74  125| 54 GS              
 2010 06 27 23:47:29.38   5.283  126.984 PDE| 31.0 5.2 7.7  16 |7.91 51 209 -0.52 36  10 -7.38  9 107|233 48  144 349 64   48| 87 GS              
 2010 07 21 09:16: 4.42   3.039  128.222 PDE|100.0 6.0 1.4  18 |1.35 47 346  0.05 40 191 -1.40 12  90| 31 69  134 141 47   29| 93 GS              

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