Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 5.3 VANUATU
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 07:49:03 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 10 09 13:12:32.22 -13.357  166.503 PDE| 23.0 5.5 2.1  17 |2.06  7 294  0.11 32  28 -2.17 56 193|353 48 -137 231 60  -51| 90 GS              
 2009 10 10 14:25:15.78 -14.117  166.691 PDE| 19.0 5.7 3.9  17 |3.89 73 112 -0.06 10 345 -3.82 13 253|330 33   71 172 59  102| 97 GS              
 2009 10 12 09:37:21.48 -12.414  166.498 PDE| 39.0 6.2 2.8  18 |3.26 78 295 -1.24  8 156 -2.03  7  65|343 53  101 145 38   76| 24 GS              
 2009 10 12 12:44:38.57 -11.682  166.348 PDE| 42.0 5.5 2.0  17 |2.06 82 267 -0.09  0 358 -1.96  7  88|358 52   90 178 38   90| 91 GS              
 2009 10 12 20:59:38.12 -14.075  166.253 PDE|  3.0 5.7 4.5  17 |4.09 52  79  0.67  3 345 -4.75 37 253|324  8   68 166 82   93| 72 GS              
 2009 10 31 19:09:51.58 -11.376  166.376 PDE|126.0 5.9 8.6  17 |9.02 86 206 -0.91  3  23 -8.11  0 113|207 45   95  19 45   85| 80 GS              
 2009 11 08 15:46: 9.22 -16.008  167.993 PDE|174.0 5.5 2.0  17 |2.18 42 148 -0.37  9  50 -1.81 46 310|309  9  -11  50 88  -99| 66 GS              
 2009 11 14 09:50:45.51 -12.201  166.245 PDE|  9.0 5.5 2.6  17 |2.50 67  96  0.23  6 348 -2.72 20 256|334 25   73 172 66   98| 83 GS              
 2009 11 23 18:36:34.35 -12.616  166.251 PDE| 20.0 5.5 2.6  17 |2.22 67 138  0.68 15   5 -2.90 15 271|340 32   60 194 62  108| 53 GS              
 2010 01 18 16:09:14.51 -12.484  166.293 PDE|  9.0 5.7 4.0  17 |4.07 63  46 -0.04 17 175 -4.03 19 271| 28 30  127 168 67   71| 98 GS              
 2010 02 20 13:35:51.10 -13.507  166.806 PDE| 28.0 5.4 1.7  17 |1.65 75 317  0.08 12 170 -1.74  7  78|359 54  105 154 39   70| 91 GS              
 2010 03 04 14:02:27.55 -13.571  167.227 PDE|176.0 6.5 6.8  18 |6.47 82 143  0.53  6 350 -7.01  3 260|343 42   80 177 49   99| 85 GS              
 2010 04 11 02:19: 6.82 -12.973  166.523 PDE|  5.0 5.7 5.0  17 |5.70 61  20 -1.90 28 194 -3.80  2 285|171 54   54  42 49  129| 33 GS              
 2010 05 27 17:14:46.57 -13.698  166.643 PDE| 35.0 7.0 3.4  19 |3.37 83 312  0.04  6 159 -3.40  3  69|345 48   98 153 42   81| 98 GS              
 2010 05 28 04:25:58.63 -14.048  166.606 PDE| 34.0 5.7 4.4  17 |4.49 79 141 -0.10  6  15 -4.39  8 284|  7 37   80 200 54   98| 96 GS              
 2010 06 02 18:51: 7.29 -13.731  166.594 PDE| 19.0 5.5 2.4  17 |1.94 13 171  0.78 68  44 -2.72 16 265| 39 88 -159 308 69   -2| 43 GS              
 2010 07 02 06:04: 3.13 -13.643  166.485 PDE| 24.0 6.2 2.7  18 |1.98 75  49  1.08  8 174 -3.06 11 266|  8 34  106 169 57   80| 29 GS              
 2010 08 10 23:18:31.77 -14.460  167.345 PDE|177.0 5.9 9.0  17 |9.50 66 171 -1.11 20 320 -8.40 10  54|308 59   66 169 38  124| 77 GS              
 2010 09 06 13:46:26.41 -10.965  162.173 PDE| 21.0 5.6 3.0  17 |2.46 44 122  0.84 31 355 -3.30 28 245|285 33   17 181 81  122| 49 GS              
 2010 12 30 14:36:54.56 -10.819  165.376 PDE| 10.0 5.6 2.8  17 |2.89 37  73 -0.16 19 327 -2.73 47 216|222 20  -15 326 85 -109| 89 GS              

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