Historic USGS Moment Tensor Solutions

Magnitude 6.1 OFF W. COAST OF S. ISLAND, N.Z.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 06:48:48 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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 2003 09 04 08:40:44.37 -45.194  167.108 PDE| 18.0 5.4 1.8  17 |1.90 71 298 -0.14  9 180 -1.76 17  87|163 30   71   5 62  101| 85 GS              
 2003 09 30 19:37:50.22 -45.486  167.045 PDE|  6.0 5.6 3.0  17 |2.88  9 345  0.19 27  80 -3.06 61 239| 47 43 -132 278 59  -58| 88 GS              
 2003 11 02 05:32:15.72 -45.190  166.535 PDE| 17.0 6.4 4.9  18 |4.91 36  55  0.04 49 203 -4.95 16 313| 88 52  164 188 77   39| 98 GS              
 2004 07 01 04:39:37.51 -49.581  163.669 PDE| 21.0 6.0 1.4  18 |1.48 17 350 -0.20 73 157 -1.28  4 259| 33 75  171 126 81   15| 73 GS              
 2004 11 22 20:26:23.90 -46.676  164.721 PDE| 23.0 7.0 3.4  19 |3.44 78  57  0.01 12 232 -3.45  1 322| 64 45  107 221 47   73| 99 GS              
 2005 10 17 07:12:43.11 -49.518  164.189 PDE|  9.0 5.6 3.3  17 |3.36 43 359 -0.03 46 164 -3.32  7 262| 31 55  152 138 67   38| 98 GS              
 2006 10 16 00:35:33.13 -50.778  162.161 PDE| 17.0 5.8 7.1  17 |6.57 10 341  0.97 80 150 -7.54  2 251| 26 82  174 117 84    8| 74 GS              
 2006 11 15 00:53:25.12 -50.599  162.328 PDE| 14.0 5.5 2.5  17 |2.56 17 354 -0.04 72 157 -2.52  5 262| 37 74  171 129 81   16| 97 GS              
 2006 12 03 10:53:43.81 -50.703  162.564 PDE| 18.0 5.6 3.2  17 |3.09 13 352  0.22 76 192 -3.31  5  83|128 78    6  36 84  168| 87 GS              
 2007 09 30 05:23:34.07 -49.271  164.115 PDE| 35.0 6.9 3.1  19 |2.93 72 246  0.25 10  13 -3.19 13 105|  7 60   78 210 33  110| 84 GS              
 2007 09 30 09:47:51.97 -49.138  164.110 PDE| 10.0 6.5 7.6  18 |7.96 43 351 -0.77 42 141 -7.20 15 246|125 73   45  19 47  156| 81 GS              
 2007 10 11 16:25: 5.85 -49.052  164.310 PDE|  4.0 5.6 2.8  17 |3.00 59 110 -0.37  4  13 -2.63 30 281|359 15   75 195 75   94| 75 GS              
 2007 10 15 12:29:34.86 -44.796  167.553 PDE| 24.0 6.7 1.4  19 |0.92 79 243  0.71  8  28 -1.63  5 119| 22 52   79 219 40  103| 13 GS              
 2007 10 15 21:28:23.68 -44.793  167.458 PDE| 16.0 6.0 1.4  18 |1.13 46 202  0.39 42  37 -1.52  7 300|353 53   32 242 65  138| 49 GS              
 2008 01 20 18:41:47.50 -44.920  166.980 PDE| 19.0 5.4 1.6  17 |1.33 63 128  0.52  8  20 -1.85 24 286|358 21   66 204 70   99| 44 GS              
 2008 04 26 23:34:49.39 -49.091  164.117 PDE|  4.0 6.1 2.0  18 |2.26 44 118 -0.50 19 228 -1.76 39 335|130 20  172 228 87   71| 56 GS              
 2009 07 16 22:18:23.48 -46.196  166.130 PDE| 20.0 5.6 2.9  17 |2.17 59  37  1.16 14 154 -3.33 25 251| 12 23  130 150 72   74| 30 GS              
 2009 08 05 08:31:40.48 -45.554  166.356 PDE| 14.0 6.0 1.1  18 |0.74 67  57  0.58 14 185 -1.31 17 279| 31 31  119 178 64   74| 11 GS              
 2010 01 06 09:48:46.45 -49.789  164.192 PDE|  4.0 5.7 4.7  17 |4.77 41 357 -0.12 45 151 -4.65 13 255|132 72   41  27 51  156| 95 GS              
 2010 03 18 06:28:50.29 -48.733  164.672 PDE| 14.0 5.5 2.6  17 |2.86 64  39 -0.55 19 176 -2.31 16 272| 28 33  127 167 64   69| 62 GS              

Latest USGS Fast Moment Tensor Solutions

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver